Seven Pounds Review

Click to enlargeI really don't understand the critical dislike for this film, me and the Wenchmesiter went to see it about two hours after seeing The Wrestler and from what I read I expected it to be shit. So this was my thanks to the tart for letting me pick The Wrestler but I kept saying it would be rubbish because all the reviews said it is.

How wrong was I? It was pretty fucking good and everyone else I have spoken to who has seen it liked it, therefore my conclusion is that it is one of those films the normal public like but critics don't.

You know I fucking hate film critics, bunch of wankers, always hate films for crappy reasons, the same cocks who give films like Wanted and Indiana Jones high reviews then turn round and bum rape a good bit of emotional cinema. They are meant to represent us the people and guide us to the right film yet they only like two types of film:

1. Wanky Hollywood films because their salary paid for by the advertisers says they must.
2. Belgium lesbian black and white silent dramas being shown at Warwick University with three other people there just so they look fucking clever.

Anything middle of the road which the general public will swallow up like a pack of only orange Revels is fucked. Bastards, bastards, fucking bastards.

Click to enlargeYeah the film has faults, it takes a while to understand what the fuck is going on and Will Smith is difficult to take seriously. I think they should have cast someone else, you see when a couple of guys who were up to no good, started makin' trouble in my neighborhood, I got in one little fight and my mom got scared and said you're movin' with your auntie and uncle in Bel-Air. It was the same with I Am Legend and he started losing it, I couldn't get it, I couldn't take him serious because this is Will Smith, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Hancock etc etc...

Still getting over Will Smith and the fact that he looks like he is squeezing out a guff when he pulls his tortured human face and accepting the film for what it is you get drawn into this character. Now some press has reported that you figure out what is going on too early and therefore slate this supposed big mystery but I don't think this is an issue, we are not watching the 6th Sense where the film ends with the surprise we are watching a tale of a man who...well I can't fucking say because I will ruin it.

Its like when Kermode fucked on it on Friday, and I like Kermode, I think he is pretty much right most of the time. He went on about how when he went to the press screening the critics were asked kindly not to reveal too much in their reviews and ruin it for everyone else. Kermode then felt that because he figured the surprise out half way through the entire film was shit, it doesn't matter when you figure it out it matters that you empathise with the situation when you do.

The film is pretty emotional all the way through, wench cried as per usual (but then she cried at Finding Fucking Nemo) and it tugged at me a couple of times. What I would say is that it is a perfect date movie, you can have a hug after and then go home and hate fuck.

Despite Will Smith being the wrong lead it is pretty fucking good out of 5