"Seven" Review

 

by Lucvino Luckeenarain

Starring Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, and co-starring Gwyneth Paltrow, R. Lee Ermey and Kevin Spacey, Seven tells the story of Detective David Mills (Brad Pitt), a detective who teams up with his near-retired colleague William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) to track down a serial killer (Kevin Spacey), who uses the Seven Deadly Sins as a motive for his murders.

The script was influenced by the time screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker spent in New York trying to become a writer. Although the city where the action of the film takes place is not named, the film takes place in Los Angeles, with the last scene being shot near Lancaster, California.

This film marks the beginning of a friendship between David Fincher and Brad Pitt, the director and the actor then meeting twice: during Fight Club (1999) and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2009).

Seven was both a commercial and critical success, with the film grossing $327 million at the box office, against a production budget of $33 million…

SYNOPSIS:

Police Inspector David Mills, transferred to the crime squad of an unnamed large American metropolis, must team up for a time with the one he will replace, William Somerset, a judicial police officer assigned to homicides, soon to be on the job. retirement.

The two men are then in charge of an investigation concerning a psychopathic serial killer, who methodically plans his murders according to the seven deadly sins, which are: gluttony, avarice, laziness, lust, pride, lust. envy and anger…