A Great & Sadistic Action Thriller

Rating: 8/10 (5 February 2010)

This review contains minor spoilers.
I heard about Se7en from the DVD cover of Saw in which The Guardian compared the two movies, claiming Saw to go "up to EI8GHT". Naturally, I expected a movie quite similar to Saw in terms of violence and gore. I didn't get it. The stories of both movies and are relatively similar, but Se7en is more of a crime thriller in which a serial killer murders his victims in accordance with the seven deadly sins, claiming the people he killed deserved it. That's where the similarities end.
Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt have great chemistry on-screen. They are genuinely believable in their roles, the tried and tested 'retiring cop' and 'new cop' formula. The crime scenes they visit aren't shown in great detail, leaving much to the imagination. For instance, the crime scene in which a woman has had her nose cut off "to spite her face" (in an effort to teach her that inner beauty is more important than outer) simply shows shots of the body at a medium long shot and shows no close- ups of the woman's actual face.
All-in-all, it's a brilliantly constructed movie that deals out the suspense and tends to keep the viewer guessing. Arguably the highlight is the climax in which all the questions you're asking yourself throughout are answered, not to mention the nasty shock Brad Pitt's character gets. I'm pretty sure that the ending is widely known even with people who haven't seen the movie, as I myself knew the ending prior to watching it. I would expect I'd have enjoyed it much better if I hadn't known how it ended but despite this, I did thoroughly enjoy it.
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