Seven Pounds review

[alobear]

I was mildly intrigued by what I knew about Seven Pounds, so it edged out the other films I didn't really want to see and became my viewing choice for this afternoon.

It was well put together, but left me unmoved.  There wasn't anything I could point to as being wrong with it, per se, it just didn't really do anything for me.  Not meaning to use a pun, it didn't have any heart to it, so while it was interesting to find out how all the pieces fit together, and the picture they formed in the end was reasonably satisfying, it elicited more of an, "Oh, okay," than a "Wow!"

Will Smith continued to impress in a role that required him to portray a great many emotions in an often quite subtle way, but there was something missing that failed to get me to invest in the character.  Perhaps the only character I really felt for in the whole film was his long-time friend, whose inability to deal with the situation he found himself in was very effective.

Not one I'd necessarily recommend, even though I couldn't describe it as a bad film.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I went to see this with Ryan a little bit ago, and it was as if we'd watched two different films: for once, I realised exactly what was going on about 25 mins in (unusual for me to be in that position, so I assumed everyone was meant to "get it"!) and thought the film was a slowly paced character study about the moral and emotional issues. Ryan otoh, didn't see what it was about until ~5 mins from the end, so he watched a more intriguing mystery film... I did shed a little tear at one point, but that's just my weepy eyes - I agree that for some reason it didn't really grab me too much emotionally.
We'll have to scope out movies to watch while you're over :-)