Seven Pounds (2008)

Incredible story and incredible acting. Bring tissues

This is the first time I write a review for a movie, but Seven Pounds encouraged me to release my feelings. This movie is one of the most emotional and deep movies I've ever watched! It takes you to another world where you think and question everything about our lives, death, and sacrifice. It takes you to a very deep level of thinking where you ask yourself if your life has a value or not, and what could add a value to this life. I think the last scene tells everything about this movie, when the heart and the eyes of the same person gather again in two different bodies, that was strongly emotional!

Continuing my Plan To Watch Every Will Smith movie in order, I come to Seven Pounds (2008)For the last few years, Smith had being mixing it up, with a serious movie followed by a more commercial one. Following on from Hancock, he was back in the serious category. Plot In A Paragraph: IRS Tax Collector Ben Thomas (Smith) a man with a secret, embarks on an extraordinary journey by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.This features one of the best performances of Will Smith's career, and it was pretty much totally ignored by movie goers and the academy voters. Directed by Pursuit Of Happyness Director Gabriele Muccino and without his trademark facial hair, Smith shows some real emotions here. Usually it is a real sadness. He is definitely a depressed man, but he is an angry man too. He can be a nasty SOB insulting Woodly Harrelson's Ezra one minute, but he can show tenderness, and a real willingness to bend the rules on some cases. If he feels they deserve a break. It really is quite a performance. I'm not going to lie, I shed a tear at the end!! It's a shame this movie seems to be forgotten about, as like Six Degrees Of Separation, it proves Will Smith really can act. Rosario Dawson is much better than she was in Men In Black 2, you feel Barry Pepper's pain, whilst Woody Harrelson is surprisingly touching. The first hour of Seven Pounds you don't really know what is happening, as he checks in to a flea bag Motel and starts looking for people to help, and I won't ruin it here, for those who have not seen it. Even the trailer (which I watched after the movie) did not give away what his plan, motives and reasons were. But all told, he helps 8 people by the time the credits roll. Seven Pounds ended Smiths run of 8 consecutive movies grossing over $100 million at the domestic box office. Which is a shame, as I think it's just as good, if not a tad better than Pursuit Of Happyness. Seven Pounds grossed $69 million at the domestic box office to end 2008 the 46th highest grossing movie of the year.

Hiow did the critics miss the mark so badly with this movie? I don't even watch dramas, but it was on TV and I just casually watched because I like Will Smith. What a great movie. I am having a hard time believing how much I liked it. It just goes to show that "experts" are rarely experts in anything more than title.