4,5,6...

Yeah it's about time I write about a movie someone has heard about. It'll be my quick take on Se7en (such a gimmicky way to spell it).

It's difficult to say too much about the movie without spoiling it, similar to revealing that Rosebud is a sled and soylent green is people. Sorry, couldn't help myself. So the gist of the movie has Detectives Somerset, played by Morgan Freeman, and Mills, played by Brad Pitt. The duo try to find a killer that picks his victims by which of the seven deadly sins they've committed. For the most part, every way that they die is pretty creative, in a morbid sense that is.

I was glad I read Dante's Inferno and The Merchant of Venice beforehand. They're both heavily referenced as well as some other works I don't know, I wager. Contemporary horror really needs more intelligent films like this one. And all the actors are believable. Really, they better be, it's Freeman and Pitt we're talking about. If I had to nitpick it'd be that I saw the infamous ending coming a few minutes before it actually happened. Still, a very solid movie.