7 deadly sins

Rating: 8/10 (27 August 2000)

This is one of the best thrillers I've seen and I've seen quite a few. You might say I'm an actual serial killer freak. This one sure is one of the best, it ranks right up there with other thrillers like Scream, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Blair Witch Project, Copycat, Arlington Road and Fight Club (if you miss Silence of the Lambs, well I can't remember that film so good so I just left it out). The only film that is actually relevant here, because of the serial killer content is of course Copycat. I wouldn't say these two films are even (considering quality), hell no Se7en is better, but hey I must mention Copycat here, because that film featuring Sigourney Weaver was released in 1995 also and I feel it has been neglected or maybe just overlooked by some due to the big success Se7en was. If you like Se7en you'll like Copycat, because it is about a killer, who well copy's famous serial killers.

Now finally on to the film in question. I feel like there is nothing much to be said about this film that already someone said or has written on this page. Still I must comment on it. For one thing I must do so, because this film features some of the best actors there are today and it also is original. First the actors, we have of course heart throb Brad Pitt as you might call him, well I call him one of the best actors of our time. He has done some really good films and by that I don't mean his older ones like Legends of the Fall or A River runs through it, no I mean this one, Fight Club (very good, very underrated) and maybe Thelma & Louise. In this film he delivers a good performance nothing too fancy but good. Especially in the ending I must say, for that part was his hardest. Good acting but not Oscar stuff. Then of course there is Morgan Freeman (see The Shawshank Redemption, Kiss the Girls and Outbreak), who is good too, as most of the time, when there is a job to be done he does it. And now for the best one yet, Kevin Spacey (whose best films are Outbreak, The Usual Suspects, A Time to Kill, The Negotiator, American Beauty and maybe The Ref), who is not that much on  screen but if he is, damn. What a great actor. You might not think this when watching the film the first time except maybe at the very end. But if you watch the film a second time and have remembered the ending (you are probably asking yourselves if can you forget it, well I've done so once but now I've seen it three times and I'll never forget I think) you have to listen closely to the conversation in the car. The way Spacey talks and what he says, it makes so much more sense' when you know the ending. He is just so confident and already teasing men who don't think he is superior when he knows he is, for he has all the aces right up his sleeve. This brings me right up to the originality of this film actually. It is not only that the films story is very original, because never have I seen somebody kill people in connection with the 7 deadly sins. It is also original in the way they are carried out and that is what makes this film really special. The killings are not only brutal, but they are well prepared, so we are dealing with a genius of a madman, something that becomes very clear at the end and not until then, maybe. I think that you actually have to like this movie you must like it unless maybe it is too gory for you. If it isn't you'll like it, trust me.

8 out of 10