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B |
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| Story: |
B+ |
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B |
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| Direction: |
C |
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B+ |
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by Nick (movies profile)
Dec 18, 2008
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33 people found this review helpful
Seven Pounds will no doubt come across to the more cynical as an Oscar-hungry try-to-hard film, but there is an absorbing story here; and if you are willing to reach a compromise with the film's egotism, meaning will be found. Will Smith doesn't give his best performance, but still manages to convince as the emotionally devastated and disturbingly lonely Ben Thomas. Woody Harrelson is superb as Ezra Turner. The film maintains a very melancholy tone throughout, and at times I felt like I was watching the slow death of some stranger in a hospital waiting room. Seven Pounds is not as interesting as it wants to be, but it will sting the heart nonetheless. |
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