the most exquisitely decorated splatter film of all time

Rating: 10/10 (24 August 2001)

Former wiz kid David Fincher set his legend into motion with this impressively claustrophobic, exquisitely decorated film which loosely comments on the seven deadly sins (hence the title) but more pertinently focuses on the brilliantly cracked mind of a serial killer. Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow and even the supremely gifted Morgan Freeman are naught but secondary window dressing next to the revelatory production design and art direction by Arthur Max and Gary Wissner respectively. Se7en establishes a new standard for the impact of set design in a horror/slasher picture and provided the box office clout Fincher needed to mastermind his near perfect "Fight Club."