“The story was like a long, boring, annoying joke that you already know the punch line too.”
Seven Pounds, Directed by Gabriele Muccino (Pursuit of Happyness), Staring Will Smith, is a tiresome Drama that never seems to go anywhere. After a short time, you already know where this story is going, but it’s doing it so slow. Not even Will Smith could rescue this dull script.
Will Smith plays an IRS Agent, Ben Thomas, with a secret that keeps you guessing until the end of the film. That is, if you haven’t already worked it out like 99% of the audience in the first 20 minutes.
The start really built up high expectations as Ben Thomas, rings 911 to report his own suicide. It was truly gripping and, I thought I was in for a good film. How wrong I was. Ben Thomas then has flash-backs starting with him saying:
“In 7 days god created the world, in 7 seconds I shattered mine”.
Ben Thomas keeps popping in and out of seven peoples life’s supposedly chasing their tax returns whilst also having flash backs of his wife. He starts by being very offensive to blind man selling meat, then he stalks a lady in a hospital with a heart problem followed by an obsession with Jelly Fish.
I don’t want to give the ending away entirely but all I will say is Ben Thomas doesn’t work for the IRS and is a good man wanting to make right of what he’s done. All the pieces to this puzzle are eventually solved right at the end. The story was like a long, boring, annoying joke that you already know the punch line too. There were moments of emotional intensity, even if you did know where this train crash was going, but it wasn’t enough to rescue the film from plummeting very slowly.
Verdict: Too Slow with very few gripping moments. A dull predictable drama which got boring after 20 mins.
