So I have to admit, I was baffled by the recent release of Will Smith’s movie Seven Pounds. Why? Because I had no idea at all what relevance the title had to the rest of the movie. Normally the title tells you something about what’s going on, or maybe about a main character, but Seven Pounds? What did that have to do with anything?
Thankfully, over the course of the movie, we’ll get at least an idea of just what that whole “seven pounds” thing is. But that really doesn’t answer the main question here—is Seven Pounds worth perfectly good time and money to watch?
Describing the plot is impossible to do without spoilers, since so much of the plot isn’t actually revealed until the ending, so I’m going to have to REALLY pussyfoot around here—basically, an aeronautical engineer is looking for a way to make seven people’s lives better, by any means necessary and at any cost necessary.
There are a lot of choice words and phrases to apply to Seven Pounds. Most of them involve obscenities and a lot of screaming. Some of them involve the little vein on my forehead popping out so far it looks fit to burst. But some of them that are fit for family dinner table consumption are words like:
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