slightlymad22
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.
gbkmmaurstad
Tim Thomas (Will Smith) is at fault in accident which results in the death of seven people including his girlfriend, Sarah (Robinne Lee). After the accident, his life slowly dissolves and ultimately leads him to make the decision to give seven strangers a 2nd chance at life. Tim assumes his brother's identity as an IRS agent to gain the trust and access to people he interviews as potential recipients of his gifts.It is a fascinating movie in how Tim selects his recipients and alarming in how his rationalizes the end to justify the means. Some will call his decision courageous and others will wonder if his actions were the acts of a mad man.Very thought provoking.
muzamilhussain-27950
Seven Pound is an amazing movie. Will Smith played a really strong character who had a mighty heart who thinks about the others.. who always ready to sacrifice his own self in order to get someone out of the trouble. Its really touchy movie which can make you sad. We usually live for ourselves and for that purpose we can go far as much as we can. but there are very few people who sacrifices whatever they have for others and they can go as much as they can to help others. They are who give others importance more than their own self. They are the real people and really hard to find in this cruel world... But the character in this movie is proved to be a unique character.
richt76
If you need/want to cry, really sob and be rent asunder: Watch this film. I haven't been such an emotional wreck since The English patient. Superb underrated movie, with Will Smith truly giving a subtle, nuanced performance. Ms Dawson too, and is just stunning. What an aesthetic.I got the premise with the haunting imagery, the flashbacks, quite early on, but that didn't detract from the humanity of this film. The torment suffered. The willingness to give, but to go that far without forgiving yourself?
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