“Se7en” is less of detective/crime story and more of a series of shocking images. This is of course a movie from David Fincher, the man responsible for killing the “Alien” franchise. It’s a real step down from movies like “Silence of the Lambs”.

In “Se7en”, detectives Somerset (Morgan Freeman “The Dark Knight”, “Driving Miss Daisy”) and Mills (Brad Pitt “World War Z”, “Burn After Reading”) are reluctantly placed on the trail of a killer who is utilising the ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ as his influence for his creative and grotesque murders. What it all leads up to is clever in many ways. However, it isn’t clever enough to warrant the extremely perverted violence.

Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman don’t work well together here. The best way to explain this is that Freeman seems to have more chemistry with Gwyneth Paltrow (“Contagion”), who plays Mills’ wife. The interactions with the killer (Kevin Spacey “Superman Returns”) also don’t work as well as they should as there is no chemistry onscreen. Individually, the cast members are good but collectively they come across very underwhelming and that’s a real shame as films like “Silence of the Lambs” and “In The Line Of Fire” get the relationship between the protagonist and antagonist correct.

One of the first scenes in “Se7en” features the discovery of a severely obese man, who has been tortured to death… and it gets worse from there. The film does have some things going for it such as a highly exciting chase sequence in the middle of the film and there are some clever twists and turns in the plot but there seems to be a lot more freedom than art and ultimately that is this movie’s greatest sin. Just be warned, “Se7en” is one of the most disturbing films I’ve ever seen and definitely not for the viewers with weak stomachs.