Seven (or Se7en to give it its proper, affected title) is one of those films that the less you know about it before you see it, the better. Like the Sixth Sense, though, it’s not a “one watch wonder”. Even when you’ve seen it before and know where it is going, it still packs a powerful punch. At its heart, it is not that original: its central idea being two mis-matched cops (a hotshot newcomer and an old pro, close to retirement) working together to track down a serial killer has been done many times before. It’s never been done quite like this, though. Much of Seven’s success comes from its deeply unsettling atmosphere, which pervades the whole ...  Read the complete review

A review of just the film, Se7en was originally released in 1996. The region 2 DVD should cost no more than £5 through the usual online retailers. Detective Lieutenant William Somerset is days from retiring from a lengthy career. A quiet, lonely man, he is irritated to find that for his last few days of service, he must work alongside his replacement; a hot-headed young detective named David Mills who has just moved to the city. The duo is called to a crime scene. A grotesquely obese man has been found dead in his apartment, and it isn't long before Somerset identifies evidence that strongly indicates the man was murdered. But neither Somerset nor Mills has ...  Read the complete review

It's probably a good indication of what a magnificent film 'Seven' is that having already bought the bog-standard DVD a few years ago, I have no hesitation in shelling out a second time for the forthcoming special 2 Disc version. There really are very few crime thrillers made with this level of intelligence and emotional richness - in the past ten years, maybe 'Silence of the Lambs' and 'Heat' have been in the same class, and they were merely works of all-conquering professionalism. 'Seven' is something else, a determinedly feel-bad movie about depravity, moral compromise and sadism of the highest order. Last weekend, ...  Read the complete review

Whats in the box? 2 Disks and lots of extras on them. A long, long time ago when DVD was first released we got a version of Seven, but that version came on a single disk but on two sides. You had to turn the disk over half way through the film to finish watching it, you actually had to eject the disk and turn it over. Now years later we get a collectors edition of Seven from New Line who have developed a habit of re-releasing some of their old DVDs only actually giving them extras and some nice boxes. Seven is part of the Platinum collection and comes in a smart black cardboard box, you pull out the insert which is designed to look like the diaries that the ...  Read the complete review

Sloth. Gluttony. Greed. Envy. Lust. Pride. Wrath. The seven dealy sins are a collection of the most objectionable vices sine early Christian times and used to eduacate the faithful of the crimes of the most immoral of humanity. In 1995 David Fincher took this idea and with the help of script writer Andrew Kevin Walker, carefully crafted a masterpiece of cinema that is regarded still as one of the modern classics. Today, Se7en is still one of the benchmarks for all crime thrillers, and one of the most copied. The plot revolves around two detectives who work homocide in an unamed, yet famiarily rain saoked city. The first Detective Lt. William ...  Read the complete review