Story

The cops have found the body of a man who has been force fed until his stomach exploded. The word 'greed' is smeared on the wall. Veteran homicide cop William Somerset (Freeman) has been handed the case in his last week on the force. His partner is energetic young rookie David Mills (Pitt who has recently transferred moving into this rain sodden gloomy town with his wife (Paltrow).

More bodies are found. The victims all meeting their death in the most grotesque of circumstances. They are being killed in accordance with the seven deadly sins. Somerset and Mills always seem to be one step behind this sick pyscopath and just need that elusive clue to find the whereabouts of their man. Will they get him before he commits all seven murders? Whats this shocking ending that they keep going on about? And why is it so dark and always raining in this city?

Verdict

Seven is a film that leaves you mentally freaked after you have watched it. The fact that you actually never see a murder being committed makes your brain work overtime as you mentally piece together what fate has befallen these seemingly innocent individuals from glimpes of corpses and police photogrpahs. The gloominess of the film makes you feel almost depressed and uneasy but at the same time inquisitive as to why thes things are happening. And then just as you think they have got their man and the mystery is to be finally unravelled....BOOM! You end up thinking 'He can't really have done that can he?' as you sit pondering the shocking ending while the credits roll past.