Spacey isn't a believable psychopath at all - think about it....

Rating: 5/10 (3 March 2011)

Now don't get me wrong and don't know any sick nut jobs like john doe is supposed to be but however - the film really just tries to prove how cunning and self righteous spaceys character is rather than how sick and scary which he would have to of been to do those things. The actual explanations of what john doe has done by the investigators (at any point in the film) or the written account of john doe's random thoughts in the book that detective sommerset read aloud were more disturbing than spaceys performance at the end of the film.
Morgan freeman plays a reasonably believable part - brad pitt is pretty cliché but he isn't an absolutely pivotal character so it doesn't bring the movie down too far but spacy is a real disappointment his part was pivotal - the film is building him up the whole movie as you don't get to see him until near the end and if he would of pulled it off the rest of the movie which was a bit slow would of been worth it.
Yeah the whole idea of seven deadly sins was pretty much Hollywood schmaltz but again that wasn't massively jarring to the entertain value of the movie and could of been better overlooked if spacey made that idea his own. If he had seemed totally detached from reality and didn't explain half as much as he did to the mills character in the car; maybe even played the 'seven sins idea' as a bit of a wind up to see if people would swallow it - had he seemed more obscure and/or incoherent at times and mixed it up with some head games and cognitive exchanges it might of been more worthwhile.
Bottom line i didn't believe he did those murders he seemed too sane and plain. An unveiling of a monster it was not - and the line 'He isn't the devil....he's just a man' - didn't excuse the performance