Seven Pounds. Really good?

The question mark draws you in. Now you have to read the review, and ask yourself, “Was it really good?”

Let me answer you. In one word.

Yes.

Will Smith drew me in with an unbelievable performance. From start to finish, the way he changed gears blew me away. Smith plays a character that draws upon emotions and in a few scenes he moves from angry to sad in the blink of an eye. Moving from first to fifth is hard to do. There aren’t many actors who can, unless you are Will Smith. Or Ben Affleck.

(Or Bale, but that was a given. From here on out, Christian Bale is the best actor ever and it is just an unspoken agreement. Every other role that he does not play the main character is only because he was too busy playing some other badass role. )

Rosario Dawson takes a very well written character and portrays it beautifully. This girl needs to get more props because she has some real fucking talent. And besides dudes jaggin it to her in Alexander she doesn’t get the attention she deserves.

In this film Will Smith plays an IRS agent who helps seven strangers in seven different ways. Haunted by his mysterious past, Will wants to make up for his mistakes and help seven other people.

There has only been one movie I was choked up over, about to cry, and that film was Miracle. Until I saw Seven Pounds.

Seven Pounds had me nearly in tears at the end of the film. Will Smith makes you believe everything that his character went through, and even though it is fiction, it is extremely moving what he does in the end.

Look, I don’t cry at movies. I just dont. But this film had me fighting them back.

And thats no joke.