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Rating: 8 stars

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All movies seen on 11/28/2023

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Se7en (1995)

Directed by David Fincher

Crime | Mystery | Thriller

Most recently watched by sensoria, CaptainBigTime, schofizzy, jakeneff, Angjonesy, seanCduregger

Overview

Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the “seven deadly sins” in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. Sommerset researches each sin in an effort to get inside the killer’s mind, while his novice partner, Mills, scoffs at his efforts to unravel the case.

Rated R | Length 127 minutes

Actors

Morgan Freeman | Brad Pitt | Gwyneth Paltrow | John Cassini | Peter Crombie | Reg E. Cathey | R. Lee Ermey | Daniel Zacapa | Andrew Kevin Walker | George Christy | Endre Hules | Hawthorne James | Bob Mack | William Davidson | Bob Collins | Jimmy Dale Hartsell | Richard Roundtree | Charline Su | Dominique Jennings | Allan Kolman | Beverly Burke | Gene Borkan | Julie Araskog | Mario Di Donato | Alfonso Freeman | John C. McGinley | Harrison White | Bob Stephenson | Michael Reid MacKay | Richard Portnow | Tudor Sherrard | Mark Boone Junior | Pamala Tyson | Lennie Loftin | Sarah Reinhardt | Emily Wagner | Martin Serene | Michael Massee | David Correia | Ron Blair | Jennifer Mueller | Leland Orser | Lexie Bigham | Evan Mirand | Paul Eckstein | Harris Savides | Rachel Flanagan | Heidi Schanz | Brian Evers | Shannon Wilcox | Richard Schiff | James Deeth | John Santin | Charles A. Tamburro | Richmond Arquette | Duffy Gaver | Kevin Spacey | Charles S. Dutton | Arthur Max

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Viewing Notes

Long overdue revisit and a perfect film for Moarvember Mysteries. Definitely appreciated it a lot more on this watch. Fincher was operating on another level delivering a mashup of detective / procedural tropes that creates his own thing that’s been emulated 100x since. There’s a few minor things that bug me but otherwise a riveting tale and really got to me especially that final sequence.

Amusing that the movie opens with NIN and closes with Bowie ‘95 who both toured together that year (saw that show twice). The constant rain in Los Angeles is hilarious given how rarely it rains. It really looks like an east coast city for a lot of the film. But that rain and overall grimy look made me wonder if this movie was an influence on LIMBO. So similar in many ways.

Anyways this is a fucking banger and really messed me up watching it.

RIP Richard Roundtree
July 9, 1942 — October 24, 2023

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