Seven

Seven is definitely a different type of thriller from the norm. The Killer has the cops as his pawns the entire movie like James Berardinelli states in his review. The killer is a deranged nut case to the end. He tries to make a point about the corruption of the world by killing one person for each of the seven deadly sins; Hence the title.

Investigating these murders are two very different but very alike detectives. The older one who is near retirement William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) is very jaded about the world but at the same time still, at least subconsciously, thinks he can help it. The younger more arrogant detective David Mills (Brad Pitt) who has just joined the force recently thinks he can save the world all by himself and gets a proverbial slap in the face when he is paired with Will.

The movie itself was very annoyingly dark. The lighting did not allow for the audience to see much of what was going on and took away from many of the details. The only scene with a significant amount of light in it was in the very end. The gore was very prevalent in the crime scenes, which was not to the extent it was bad, but may still have been excessive. The movie was also rather predictable with its ending contrary to what James Berardinelli thinks and I think it could have been put together much better.

Fight Club

In David Fincher's movie Fight Club, staring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter, David does a great job of captivating the audience just by the utter strangeness of the story. It was based off of a book by Chuck Palahniuk which has become very popular since. The story throughout most of the movie doesn't seem to mean much except the fact that the main character has a crappy life and his "friend,” played by Brad Pitt, is definitely making it more interesting.

Jack(Edward Norton), starts as an insomniac who becomes addicted to going to support groups because they are the only thing that cure his insomnia. This is where he meats Marla (Helena Bonham Carter) who screws everything up and he ends up not being able to sleep again. This leads him to try and find another way to sleep at night and he ends up meating Tyler(Brad Pitt), who after his apartment blows up, he stays with and ends up starting the Fight Club. The movie seems very random throughout consisting of Jack becoming more and more of an aggressive person who seemingly learns it from Jack.

In the beginning portion of the movie you will notice a unique addition to the production in that there are random foreshadowings of clips that are spliced into the movie at various scenes. They are just shots of Tyler appearing out of nowhere and only lasting a fraction of a second but if you pick them up you can figure out that something isn't right which helps lead to the conclusion of the story and why all of the movie is happening in the first place and what lead up to the opening scene of Jack with a gun to his head. I agree with James Berardinelli when he says David Fincher does a good job of putting depth into a seemingly random story while still keeping it entertaining.