7 Pounds

SEVEN POUNDS- I normally boycott Will Smith films, and have not see his last three films. I had the joys of going Saturday night with some friends to go see this film. I was pleasantly surprised by how good it was. There where issues at the theatre about the focusing, but I was able to still follow it and enjoyed every second of it. In the opening, Will Smith is on the phone with a call center for a meat order that went weary. The gentleman on the other end of the phone, was Woody Harrelson who portrayed a blind man. Smith in turn harasses him and makes crude comments about Harrelson’s disability, and ends up having a breakdown and screams the name of seven individuals. I felt sick inside, and want to get up and leave, but I am glad I stuck through it.

Through flashbacks and everything else going on, you come to find out that Smith got in a horrific car accident due to him emailing on his Blackberry while driving and kills the love of his life along with a van full of 6 other people. Smith is torn up about this, and tries to do good for the world. In his quest to save the lives of others that are battling terminal illnesses, he steals his brothers IRS badge and finds people that are being audited for not paying their taxes, and tries to find out what type of person they really are. Some of them are not very nice, and one person in particular runs a nursing home and doesn’t treat the elderly with much respect.

This film was heart whelming, and inspiring. I know that I saw it in the dollar theatre, but I would recommend it to everyone, and knowing how good it was I would have paid for at least a matinee price.