Excellent Movie. More than one of the best cop-thrillers ever.

Rating: 10/10 (4 May 2005)

Seven was magnificent. I can't believe I didn't know of it until now. My husband claims he didn't tell me about it because he wants to protect me from "bad things", which is very sweet, but I am so particular about movies that even something like a badly done "romance" or "comedy" will upset me and lets not even talk about annoying "kiddie" movies. I am rarely motivated to post a review of a movie: I will only do so if a movie is exceptionally good, or (I won't waste time on just an okay or mediocre or bad movie: those kinds of movies are the norm) if I have been lead to believe a movie would be good due to, say, excellent prequels and I ended up inexcusably let down by it.
Seven delivers. I don't know how else to sum it up. I have read the more recent comments of others and I am pleased to see quite a few of you know what your talking about. The effects: the lighting, the sound, music, the way the scenes and story was set up: pretty much everything is executed perfectly. And because of this the actors are able to exhibit their talents to the fullest of their capability.
Morgan Freeman has this way of saying things in such a believable way: he's a wonderful actor. Brad Pitt is extremely convincing and the supporting cast is the icing on the cake as far as acting goes in this movie. Everyone worked well together to make this movie great hence lots of credit needs to go to the writers, editors, visual effects, sound effects, soundtrack and overall vision of the Director (and I'm sure there's more I've left out).
To the person who criticized "Saw" for copying Seven: I had the displeasure of seeing Saw before I even knew of this movie and I thought to myself at the time: they could have done soooo much better with this. And you are completely correct. Saw isn't the worst movie I've ever seen, but it is quite bad, and maybe something for one to see if one can obtain humor from bad acting (I like Danny Glover, but unfortunately the movie was bad. And Cary Elwes was over the top in the overacting department). See Saw everyone, if you're in the mood for somethin' a little freaky, and aren't in the mood to take a movie too seriously.
Seven seems real. It's fiction but... believable. And it is tastefully done, for being a movie about about killing, death, and dark things. People get disturbed for varying reasons of their own. Silence of the Lambs (again to the person who was writing about Saw copying Seven) is excellent, but I don't watch it too often because I get too disturbed by it. Seven is a little different because the movie sets it up so that at least in my opinion, there is less of a sympathy factor for some of the victims-SOME, I stress. I can't go into further detail without risking spoiling the movie for anyone else who might be reading this but those who have seen the movie, maybe you'll know what I mean. I wholeheartedly recommend this movie for those who want to see a dark, disturbing...profound and meaningful thriller.