Ben said:
Ollie said:
Oh and in all that excitement I forgot to add...
I've just finished watching Se7en:
I've been wanting to see this film for ages but never actually managed to get hold of a copy. Finally got to watch it tonight though. It was pretty good. Not as great as I thought it would be but it was a solid film with some pretty good acting. They could of gone a bit deeper into the deaths though as that's what the film is about but it was enough to keep the plot moving forward. There were some pretty good scenes but I felt at the end it tried to do a really good twist and failed. I managed to guess what would happen ages before it did having not seen the film before or knowing the plot which for me defeats the whole point of having a clever twist.
Still it's a good film though and worth watching.
8/10
Get out.
Nah, it's pretty fair... Well, obviously being Ollie - it's wrong, but...
The film is, at its core, brilliant. From the opening sequence with a fantastic remix of Closer (any film with NIN in the opening two minutes has to be a good thing), down to the clever premise, the great acting and some of the best direction to come out of the 90's. Superb stuff.
However, Ollie is right... For the wrong reasons.
First up, you're supposed to realise what will happen at the end. It's part of what makes the film so good. As it dawns on you, you're supposed to feel the stress and tension that Pitt is feeling. You're invited to enter into his downward spiral which leads to the ending. The acting and direction makes you emotionally engaged and with him right through to the climax.
The problem is, that the ending is actually tacked on to suit the film and characters, but neglects the earlier, brilliant premise.
Everything that happens in the first 5/7th's of the film has been in planning for years. We know this, it's planned meticulously and down to the finest details.
The last 2/7th's of the film, are planned in a rush. The planning wasn't even possible when the first 5/7th's were planned. So the idea that there is brilliance and that the entire se7en is planned meticulously is shot to pieces, making the premise of the film fail.
Does it make it a bad film though? No, it doesn't. It's still brilliant, it's just that the story downfall makes it an 8/9 out of 10 film rather than a 10/10.