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Title: Seven
Year: 1995
Length: 127 minutes
Director: David Fincher
Writer: Andrew Kevin Walker
Starring: Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin Spacey
Music: Howard Shore
Distinctions: Oscar nomination for Best Editing; currently #28 on the IMDb's Top 250
My reaction
Synopsis: police try to catch a serial killer
How I saw it: on video (rented from Netflix), yesterday
Concept: Bad.
Story: Indifferent.
Characters: Bad. This movie's biggest flaw is probably its unrelenting insistence that these characters aren't completely boring.
Dialog: Indifferent.
Pacing: Good.
Cinematography: Indifferent. It tries really hard. Mostly I just want to know why no one knows how to use a light switch.
Special effects/design: Great.
Acting: Good.
Music: Indifferent.
Subjective Rating: 6/10 (Okay). So, I guess the idea is to shock you with grotesque cruelty? All of that stuff serves no other purpose than to be unpleasant. Or perhaps it's meant to be a suspenseful mystery? In which case it doesn't fail completely, although it's not particularly good apart from the one action scene. Ultimately, it comes down to the characters, who are boring.
Objective Rating: 2.2/4 (Okay).
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