Review of The Seven-Ups (1973) by Harry W — 12 May 2014

The Seven-Ups has a confusing intro because it doesn't solidify an understanding of the characters, as in who they are or what they have meaning to. It can only be assumed that Roy Scheider is portraying the protagonist, but how you can identify that otherwise is unanswerable.

The Seven-Ups never truly makes it clear just what is going on, but whatever is seemingly happening is boring and not explored well enough for it to be a good film, but rather a half-assed rehash of The French Connection which is so literally half assed that it borrows Roy Scheider from the film and puts him in a lead role in an attempt to capitalise on his Academy Award nominated success. Although his performance was great and he stepped up to the lead role fearlessly, the film itself isn't good enough to be one that features him in it, and frankly aside from him The Seven-Ups can only boast some decent brief actions scenes and a cool chase scene. Unfortunately, by todays standards its not worth sitting through an entire film for this little, and unless you're a die hard fan of Philip D'Antoni's car chases or Roy Scheider's work as an actor, then The Seven-Ups isn't hard to walk awat from.