Not your average mystery

Rating: 9/10 (29 April 2005)

A high IQ and severe insanity is a dangerous combination. No film proves this better than Seven. Kevin Spacey plays John Doe, an independently rich, extremely intelligent, and severely disturbed serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins (pride, lust, gluttony, sloth, envy, anger, greed)as the inspiration for a series of deaths in a lower class city. It is also a plus that film stars Morgan Freeman, who in my opinion could be the greatest actor of all time, as one of the detectives attempting to catch him. The only thing that hurt the movie for me was that I felt that Brad Pitt tended to overact in some of the scenes. Let me just end this by saying that the ending of this film is guaranteed to leave you completely stunned.