Overrated... Come on. It's good but not a masterpiece! Many PLOT HOLES and utterly predictable!

Rating: 4/10 (8 November 2006)

I don't know if it is me or what, but it seems I am getting used to see similar stories like this one. Two detectives, the old experienced one who keeps calm everywhere and is near to retirement and the young impulsive one who does not like to be advised. It is time people in Hollywood start using their brains, because the audience is tired of the same trash. It is like Lethal Weapon with Glover/Gibson, but dark.
OK. This movie is good, it has thrilling moments and some good actors (not all), but to me it is just another detectives movie. I do not see any originality here. I have seen the same sadistic scenes including the famous "blood writing" in tons of films already.
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There are also some stupidity/plot holes in the movie:
1) Do you really need 20-30 swat men to break into the apartment of ONE criminal that is probably alone taking a bath?
2) The zombie thing. This really made me laugh. It is impossible that a man is still alive after being tied on a bed one year. It seemed taken from Night of The Living Dead!!! To be alive a person needs to eat food, drink water, go to the toilet, etc. They had cut one hand from him. An injury like that is infected quickly. The man can even die for a heart attack because of the contaminated blood or even the pain caused by the cut.
3) In the scene where both detectives are chasing after John Doe and finally the murderer does not shoot Mills and escapes is just plain ridiculous. In this case you would be expecting Mills screaming to his buddy "I am OK, William, run and get the bastard!" like you probably saw in other detectives movies but... No! Here they just missed the criminal.
4) In the high voltage towers field, when the box came, a good cop would have not opened the package because there was a high probability that the box contained a bomb. And by the way, the box contained a bleeding human part. NO SMELL??? Come on!
5) John Doe kills people who match deadly sins. Why does he kill Tracy? Just to have a reason to make Mills mad? Tracy is the most innocent person in the movie.
More things out of place:
1) Detective Somerset seems to be a respectable and correct person. Why is he such a dick with detective Mills for example when Mills has a kind gesture offering him coffee? OK. It is a detail and Mills is actually shallow, but why Somerset behaves like that with the boy?
2) Tracy Mills character does not have a clear place. Personally I think she is beautiful but her acting is so so. Her relationship with her husband, the young detective, is very cold and anybody could think she is flirting with Somerset, not looking for help.
3) After dinner in Mills apartment, there is a scene where Tracy woke up and saw that both men have gone. That scene did not really add anything.
4) John Doe character is not menacing. He actually looks and speaks like a gay.
So if you do not have these points in count you probably will think this film is great, otherwise you will think just like me that this is another detectives movies of the pile. And this movie is not disturbing, it is sadistic.