I don't write comments very often, but this time I had to add an opposite view to the quite homogeneous comments that all praise this movie. This movie's intentions are quite obvious - to make the audience cry - and the means by which they are or shall be achieved are probably copied directly from the book "emotion driven screen writing for dummies". Actually I think that the principal flaw lies within the screenplay. The dialogs the people are having, the life stories they have or tell about, the motivations by which they are driven seem to have been used in thousands of other movies. Therefore they seem flat and so cliché. Although the actors do a good job and the music is not bad either, the movie unfortunately remains pretentious kitsch for me. 5 out of 10.
Review of Seven Pounds
