Not only is the idea so far out to be only fiction, it is so sadly executed that you can be pardoned for thinking Will Smith has remade Hancock, with less booze, more heart but as many powers and apparently as much grief.

| Apr 26, 2019

... the ending just raised another question: what the hell was that?

| Original Score: C- | Sep 12, 2017

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

A collage of strong scenes, dull bits, good filmmaking and a dissatisfying emotional payoff. A laudable attempt to tackle heavyweight subject-matter that ends up just being heavy weather.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 16, 2009

It's not what you'd call any good, but Claude Lelouch fans, say, might relish its grandiose romantic gestures in the face of all known logic.

| Original Score: 2/6 | Jan 16, 2009

Seven Pounds is a profoundly irritating mystery about a profoundly silly man.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 16, 2009

A supremely annoying film.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 16, 2009

Seven Pounds compounds the schmaltz in a tale of goody-goody benefaction and glutinous redemption, whose plot the distributors mercifully injunct us from revealing.

| Jan 16, 2009

Soppy romance and excruciating piety cling to the film like bindweed, summoning the ghost of sobfest Pay It Forward, with the divine parallels of self-sacrifice taken to extremes of righteous absurdity.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 16, 2009

This preposterous, patience-draining, ponderous, Pay It Forward-style nonsense, from Gabriele Muccino, the director of The Pursuit Of Happyness, basically amounts to a big pile of backslapping on behalf of the ever-watchable Smith.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 16, 2009

There is indeed a secret, but it is not overly challenging to work out what's going on in this annoying film.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 9, 2009

The film's most abiding mystery lies in the question of why it ever got made.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 8, 2009

Maudlin, incredibly self-important and ultimately delivering a denouement that's head-scratching, nonetheless this picture is so well made, and so beautifully acted by Will Smith, that hating it for its numerous flaws proves to be surprisingly difficult.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 21, 2008

The real mystery is why such a maudlin screenplay made it to the big screen in the first place and what made Smith and Muccino think they could turn it into anything more than somber melodrama.

| Dec 20, 2008

As high concepts go, Seven Pounds is distasteful in the extreme.

| Original Score: C- | Dec 19, 2008

It's a lovely performance [by Dawson], in part because her character throws every charm she's got at the one man who seems doomed to deflect it.

| Dec 19, 2008

It takes the soggy cake for multiple layers of sentimentality topped by indigestible grandiosity.

Full Review | Dec 19, 2008

You will either be frustrated with its asymmetrical and manipulative storytelling or be captivated by scattered clues that ultimately lead to some kind of resolution.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 19, 2008

A convoluted tearjerker complete with murky camerawork and even murkier emotions.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 19, 2008

It affirms life as something enormous and important, not small, not meaningless, but monumental and worthy of big statements.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 19, 2008