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Title: Crime/Mystery with a Philosophical Twist
Review: Directed interestingly, acted well, written heavy-handedly. Aside from the use of color, the directing has nothing on any other high budget action movie. Of course, these are well directed for their purpose. Morgan Freeman acts very well, Paltrow acts as she always does, and Brad Pitt is Brad Pitt. He wasn't always convincing, but this I'll blame on the writer giving him an impossible, unconvincing character. The writer was preaching, and he preached an interesting movie. But if you want to see the same message preached more intelligently, watch David Lynch's "Blue Velvet." To give "Seven" its due, it preaches less blatantly than BV, but also less brilliantly. In the end, it is slightly more intelligent than the average big budget movie, but it is not perfect. It's worth watching, maybe twice, but not buying.
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