Product Description

Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Wrath. Pride. Lust. Envy. Two cops (Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman) track a brilliant and elusive killer who orchestrates a string of horrific murders, each kill targeting a practitioner of one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Gwyneth Paltrow also stars in this acclaimed thriller set in a dour, drizzly city sick with pain and blight. David Fincher (Fight Club, Zodiac, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) guides the action – physical, mental and spiritual – with a sure understanding of what terrifies us, right up to a stunning denouement that will rip the scar tissue off the most hardened soul.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9948 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Bros
• Released on: 2010-09-14
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: AC-3, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dimensions: .42 pounds
• Running time: 127 minutes

Features

• Blu-ray
• Blue BD Case
• Dolby Digital Surround 7.1 - English
• 4 Commentaries Featuring Director David Fincher Actors Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman and Other Collaborators on the Film Additional/Extended Scenes Alternate Endings Exploration of the Opening Title Sequence from Multiple Video Angles with Various Audio Mixes and 2 Commentary Tracks Production Design and Still Photographs with Commentaries The Notebooks: Full MotionVideo Details "John Doe's" Writings Theatrical Trailer

Amazon.com
The most viscerally frightening and disturbing homicidal-maniac picture since The Silence of the Lambs, Seven is based on an idea that's both gruesome and ingenious. A serial killer forces each of his victims to die by acting out one of the seven deadly sins. The murder scene is then artfully arranged into a grotesque tableau, a graphic illustration of each mortal vice. From the jittery opening credits to the horrifying (and seemingly inescapable) concluding twist, director David Fincher immerses us in a murky urban twilight where everything seems to be rotting, rusting, or molding; the air is cold and heavy with dread. Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt are the detectives who skillfully track down the killer--all the while unaware that he has been closing in on them, as well. Gwyneth Paltrow and Kevin Spacey are also featured, but it is director Fincher and the ominous, overwhelmingly oppressive atmosphere of doom that he creates that are the real stars of the film. It's a terrific date movie--for vampires. --Jim Emerson

From The New Yorker
The murders in David Fincher's serial-killer mystery are grisly tableaux, each artfully arranged to illustrate one of the seven deadly sins: a fat man is force-fed until his stomach bursts, a lazy man is strapped to his bed and allowed to waste away, and so on. This kind of self-conscious literary conceit can work if it's handled with a light, parodic touch. Unfortunately, the movie's clammy design, glum cinematography, and lugubrious pace try to persuade us that what we're watching isn't an ingenious, silly piece of pulp but a serious meditation on the nature of evil. The police detectives-weary old Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and brash young Mills (Brad Pitt)-search for clues by flashlight, at crime scenes where, typically, the only other source of light is a lamp with a twenty-five-watt bulb. And when the action moves outdoors it's always raining-sheets of water on the windshield keep the morose cops sealed off from the rest of the world even while they drive on busy streets. Freeman, with his immense dignity and authority, manages to keep his head above water, but Pitt goes under. Fincher, whose background is in commercials and music videos, doesn't seem to understand that narrative filmmaking requires something more than a striking look; a style that's effective for three minutes can become awfully tiresome stretched over a hundred and twenty-eight. The movie seems to last an eternity, and that's with only seven sins to account for-just be thankful that the murders aren't patterned on the Ninety-five Theses of Martin Luther. Also with Gwyneth Paltrow. -Terrence Rafferty
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Review
The most viscerally frightening and disturbing homicidal maniac picture since The Silence of the Lambs, Seven is based on an idea that's both gruesome and ingenious. A serial killer forces each of his victims to die by acting out one of the seven deadly sins. The murder scene is then artfully arranged into a grotesque tableau, a graphic illustration of each mortal vice. From the jittery opening credits to the horrifying (and seemingly inescapable) concluding twist, director David Fincher immerses us in a murky urban twilight where everything seems to be rotting, rusting, or molding; the air is cold and heavy with dread. Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt are the detectives who skillfully track down the killer--all the while unaware that he has been closing in on them, as well. Gwyneth Paltrow and Kevin Spacey are also featured, but it is director Fincher and the ominous, overwhelmingly oppressive atmosphere of doom that he creates that are the real stars of the film. It's a terrific date movie--for vampires. --Jim Emerson --Amazon. Com