Constructed and boring

Rating: 2/10 (28 April 2000)

Yes, I hated "Alien 3". And "Seven" was the second worst film I've ever seen (the worst was "Surf Nazis must die"). So, what was I thinking when a friend gave it to me on DVD? "Well, it's for free."
What a waste of time! I was not as angry as I was when I left the movie theatre after seeing "Seven". Maybe because I expected a ridiculous story, a film only concerned with manipulating its viewers by using hollow effects, where a sledgehammer is a subtle tool compared to them. The director isn't interessted in his characters for a second, so why should we be. Maybe this film was about the changes in the personality of Michael Douglas character. But the director lost focus, seemingly more concered with the boring action sequences.
Yes, the film was boring. Mainly because I couldn't identify with any character, especially not with Michael Douglas' character. How dumb could this guy be? Using his bank passwords on the phone when one of the known "enemies" is sitting next to him? Even if not, telling the password on a cell phone? And how dumb did Fincher think his audience is: Maybe not everbody understood, what that burning price tag inside the lamp meant. But I guess everybody knew after he opened the empty fridge. Opening drawings, looking on bookshelves and turning photographs was really annoying.
If you like thrillers where the main character doesn't know who's on his side, don't bother with this flick. Watch "The Spanish Prisoner" instead. Yeah, no action there, but characters you are interessted in.