Highly overrated Fincher Crime/Drama

Rating: 7/10 (21 May 2016)

This film serves as a stage for a nice thriller's premise, a serial killer who commits his crimes with the theme of the 'seven deadly sins', the ever popular biblical concept. Throw in Brad Pitt, the young hard-nose copper and his associate, the more seasoned, gathered Morgan Freeman who serves as a token of maturity and intellectual analysis, Gwyneth Paltrow as the always worried lovely blonde, and the villain, portrayed by an excellent actor who, quite honestly, makes the ending into anything good at all. The movie is too long, too bloody/gory for no good reason, the off-plot filler dialog is awful and irrelevant, why with such a theme for the film they couldn't think up anything compelling for their protagonists to say ?? The ending revolves heavily around certain characters, and besides the fact it's terribly acted out by Brad Pitt particularly, it is an escalated climax to something that hasn't gained enough momentum to really be dramatic. We get what the film-makers were trying to do, but considering everything that could've been achieved, this is but a pale, over-long, hollow and quite unprofessional rendering of what it could've/should've been. Solid film still; still a solid premise and relevant enough to warrant a viewing.