Live Life Team
Too much confusion is never good and for a good part of this movie you find yourself scratching your head, trying to figure out exactly what’s going on and even who Will Smith is supposed to be. If you’ve seen the promos for ‘Seven Pounds’ and were left wondering exactly what Will Smith is going to do to help seven people in the movie; you should know that heading out to the movies isn’t really going to help much.
The movie starts with a line like “In seven days, God created the world. In seven seconds, I shattered mine.” Okay, so by now it’s been established that seven is the magic number here. Then what, Well, then the confusion begins. You see Smith calling 911 to report a suicide. Whose suicide, Umm, apparently Ben Thomas’s! (Smith’s character)
He then moves on to being some sort of 21st century Scrooge and goes about unkindly reminding some very poor clients they are behind on their taxes. What you later figure out is that he isn’t an IRS agent but a rocket scientist who’s going to kill himself anyway but wants to dispose off his fortune to seven worthy beneficiaries anonymously. He wants to kill himself because he wants to join his dearly departed beloved wife who he killed because he was too distracted by his Blackberry while he was driving. Trust me; you’ll have to sit through the whole movie to figure this one out!
Will Smith might have made eight consecutive $100 million movies, and his fans might love this one too. But for me it was just a sugar-syrup tearjerker with a sentimental message that’s a little too confusing to decipher!
