Review of Seven Pounds (2008) by Jared M — 28 Mar 2015
Oh man this is easily one the worst movies I've seen in a while. They did absolutely nothing right with this one. It was a pretty cool concept too. I could totally see this kind of movie working. But they screwed it up bad.
The movie follows Will Smith as he tries to find suitable people to donate his organs too and he eventually meets Rosario Dawson and they get a thing going. Not a terrible idea by any means. The guy wants to give his organs to people.
That opens all sorts of doors for your movie. You can have the movie ask all sorts of intelligent questions, like "how do you determine if someone is good or bad?", and "is Will Smith justified to judge these people?".
You can have Will Smith develop a strong, emotional connection will the people he's donating too and make for a very engaging film. BUT. They didn't do any of these things. Actually they did the exact opposite.
They basically turned this into Will Smith and Rosario Dawson reading a really bad, awkward sounding script while they stand there and look bored. They force a relationship between the two and they focus on that instead of building ties between Will Smith and his organ recipients, and it makes for a ridiculously boring movie.
Neither Will Smith's or Rosario Dawson's characters were written with any sort of personality, so you can't really care about them at all. You're stuck with them the whole movie too. It's just painful to watch.
Everything else was done incredibly lazy as well. From directing, to editing, to music choice, from cinematography, it's all really, really bad. All this combined into one movie results to one of the worst films I've ever seen.
Stay away.
This review of Seven Pounds (2008) was written by Jared M on 28 Mar 2015.
Seven Pounds has generally received positive reviews.
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