Dark and disturbing

Rating: Null/10 (19 June 2002)

I didn't really think this film would have any effect on me, I thought it would just be another police cat and mouse story in which the two detectives hate each other at the start of the film and then end up becoming bestest buds by the end credits but it isn't that all. I wouldn't classify this as a horror film although when I was watching it, I felt as though I couldn't relax until the end credits came up on screen.
I think the person who wrote this must have a pretty vivid ( and not to mention disturbed) imagination. The deaths aren't just gory with a few lashings of tomatoe ketchup strewn around the 'corpse', no, I can take the blood and the huge obese man covered in stitches and bruises, its the actual form of killing and toture that I am amazed at. I mean where on earth did the writer come up with these disgusting forms of torture??
The acting was ok, although I often feel that Morgan Freeman plays the same character again and again. I'm disapointed that Kevin Spacey wasn't listed in the opening credits because, although short, his performance, once again, was magnificent and totally believable as John Doe.
If you like really imaginative deaths and lashings of gore, you'll like Se7en for its brilliantly directed portrayal of the dark and sinister underworld. Se7en is clever and stylishly directed and I am glad I watched it but I would never sit through it again. 6/10