IMDb top 250: #22
Rating 9/10
Director: David Fincher
Writers: Andrew Kevin Walker
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Brad Pitt & Gwyenth Paltrow
"You're no messiah. You're a movie of the week. You're a fucking t-shirt, at best."
I love this film. I love everything about it. It's a brilliantly written, filmed and acted piece of work! It's ingeniously clever but never too clever for it's own good making it hard to follow and it has one of the best, most depressing endings in any movie ever!
David Fincher's direction is so gothic and gritty and the sets are so good you can almost smell the crime scenes! The movie is gruesome but never violent as you never actually see the killer murder anybody! There is one particularly gruesome scene involving a prostitute and a deadly sex toy that will stay with you for days afterwards, and you don't even see it happen. This is down to some fantastic writing and brilliant acting from all involved.
The pairing of Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman is brilliant and both play their parts excellently, especially Freeman. Gwyneth Paltrow offers solid supporting and does well with what little she has to do.
I don't want to ruin the movie for those who haven't seen it so I shall say no more, except this is a brilliantly dark, chilling, thriller of a movie that I will never tire of watching!
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