Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Ricardo Daly The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

abdulwadoodbutt The beginning was angering, seeing Will Smith's actions was disgusting, but in the end what it lead up to and his reason behind it was absolutely beautiful!

eljayhalflife This contrived, self-important story is sheer hogwash. It is so difficult to donate an organ or to receive one that this is an absolute insult to the brave people who donate and to the families of people waiting for donations. No one would be able to do what this character supposedly does in this movie. There are better records and more medical surveillance of the people involved in donations than most people can imagine, including (obviously) the writer of this script. The first thing physicians would notice is the missing lung tissue. That alone would disqualify someone from giving other tissues while still alive. No doctor is going to take part of a lung AND part of a liver AND a kidney AND bone marrow from one living person. Not possible. The house? Give someone a house in California, even a relative, and they have to pay tax on the actual appraised value of the home upon taking possession. Plus the property tax, etc. Again, zero research into the subject matter. Also...the last scene. I can tell you from personal experience that if you live in any urban area of California 9-1-1 staff is there within just a couple minutes. I mean less than five. So is there time to undress, pour the jellyfish into the water and climb in? Probably not. Plus the cold water would probably at least immobilize the jelly if not kill it. And jelly fish do NOT go after someone and latch on. The sting is passive. The whole movie is a brainless mess thrown together to elicit the biggest boo hoos possible from people who don't know any better.

The Movie Diorama It is extremely rare for a film to get me emotional, I am essentially dead inside. Yet here I am, alone in my house, wiping a few tears away as I say out loud "pull yourself together!". To describe the plot would be doing it an injustice, but essentially a man contacts seven strangers in an attempt to turn their lives around. This raises the fundamental question: why? Now that would be a spoiler. Now I'm not tearing up just because it's a beautiful heartfelt drama, no no. I'm emotional because it just goes to show that performing acts of kindness can really make a difference in someone's life. We now live in a world where we keep ourselves distant from others. Isolated. Solitude. But what if you went outside and decided to help someone, even if it was just a stranger. The little difference you could make to their lives may just change your own. Seven Pounds eloquently explores that, perhaps slightly too melodramatically but it was required to make its purpose apparent. The extremities that our protagonist goes through to help others is rather inspiring. As the plot thickens, we soon start to unravel why he is doing this...and it's utterly heartbreaking. The last twenty minutes...damn. Just damn. It got to me. For that reason alone, I will remember this film for many years to come. This is undoubtedly one of Will Smith's best performances. Nuanced, understated and emotionally complex, he was able to evoke a sense of morality and innocence that we should all pursue in our own lives. Not to the extremities that his character undergoes, but kindness is a powerful trait to acquire. The supporting cast were excellent also. Big fan of Rosario Dawson who pulled in a beautiful performance. Woody Harrelson was good, would've liked to have seen more interaction with him. Direction solid, musical score hard hitting, wonderful cinematography...I could go on. To say Seven Pounds is a "nice" film is wrong. It's more than that and deserves far more attention, albeit slightly too melodramatic.

Alexey Ledwith The concept is interesting, but the film lacks emotional complexity. Not terrible, but they missed a good opportunity for a beautiful film ultimately about love. With the exception of Rosario Dawson, the film doesn't have characters with enough depth for the audience to genuinely care about the final outcome of the movie. Will Smith is capable of amazing work, and he has several nice delicate scenes of rage and sadness, but overall is feels like a performance that was Oscar bait. For a movie about grief, love and redemption, there are too many surface level emotions created by an extremely talented group of actors. The director needed to pull more out of his actors for this ending to be worth the journey. Without that emotional depth, the end of the movie almost seems misplaced and unnatural to the rest of the tone throughout, like it's trying too hard to make you feel something instead of actually feeling something.