Brad Pitt & Morgan Freeman Team Up On Detective Trail

Rating: 8/10 (9 February 2010)

This movie is good solid character development & story telling. It is just short of being a great film. The reason that is too me is that the ending is way too predictable. The clues to the ending are revealed in the middle of the film and I was able to predict it.
Morgan Freeman is perfectly cast as the thinking man Detective. Any thinking man character fits Freeman though even though there is some action in this one, Freeman is the 34 year vet who has never fired his gun. That's good because he doesn't fit the classic thinking & action Detective that Humphrey Bogart did so well.
Brad Pitt is perfectly cast as the young emotional out of control Detective Mills who gets Freeman teamed with him on the trail of the seven deadly sins killer. He is the young guy who marries his school sweetheart, and that is why it is so predictable. As soon as you realize that Love is one of the sins, you know his wife is in danger.
The film works well as a drama but not as a mystery at the end. Earlier on it works as being unpredictable as the other victims are revealed. Kevin Spacey is very effective in the last reals as the murderer. The thing is, other than driving Detective Mills crazy at the end, his character works out to be much less than your led to believe by the story.
Overall, this is a very solid film, but falls just short of being a great film. I think if a real suspense Director like Sir Alfred Hitchcock had gotten a hold of it, the ending would have been done even better. This is the best film this Director has on his resume so far.