Dreary, gratuitous and in the end totally illogical.

Rating: 3/10 (9 November 2013)

"Se7en" ... do I really need to go over the plot? Seven deadly sins: each murder victim a perpetrator of one of the sins.
I guess this is a clever plot device but really ... why not go after pedophiles and rapists? Let's murder someone for being a little lazy but go forth and be free evil pedo.
Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt; detectives picking over each crime scene and chasing the serial killer (Kevin Spacey). Gwyneth Paltrow is the meek and dependent wife of Brad Pitt's character unhappy with the move to the city she and her husband have made.
I remember this back in 1995; setting new standards for on-screen goriness but to me it crossed a line into being gratuitous. The Gwyneth Paltrow character in my opinion was so obvious she may as well have been wearing a target the whole time. I remember thinking this early on as I saw it in the cinema back in '95.
Okay so enough has been said about this one over the years. I'll get to my point.
Six of the victims were gruesomely murdered by the serial killer based on a sin he saw them perpetrate. Greedy guy is made to eat to death, slothful guy is rendered immobile, etcetera, etcetera.
*SPOILER*
So the killer rigs things up so that he is killed for the sin of envy, having harassed and killed the obvious target (Paltrow). So target lady's husband kills the murderer (envy ticked off the list).
However at the same time in shooting the serial killer Pitt's character becomes wrath. Just a simple observation but every other sin was punishable by death except this one?
And isn't "wrath" more of a seething anger spanning a great amount of time? Here it was an instant knee-jerk reaction. It was instant retribution, not "wrath" as far as I'm concerned.
He probably should have shot him in the balls or something to foil the plot. Instead the serial killer is given satisfaction.
And Target - sorry - Paltrow was murdered ... what was her sin? See, major plot holes. It doesn't stand up.
It is okay, just illogical and dreary and overrated.