
The film starts out showing us an average day of an older homicide detective, Morgan Freeman, allowing the audience to see what he views on a daily basis due to his job. The dark slates jump and shake while showing the serial killer preparing to do his 'work'.
The film throughout is very dark, both in theme and lighting. In almost every scene it is shown to be heavily raining which sets the tone. After the opening sequences Freeman meeting his new partner, Brad Pitt, as they are to investigate the seemingly death of a obese man which they later uncover at the ortopsy someone forced him to eat spaghetti then kicked his stomach to burst it. This is the first of the seven sins, gluttony.
The detectives work together despite their differences, more and more victims of strange torturous murders someone is acting out the Catholic Church's "Seven Deadly Sins." Each victim is forced to suffer whatever sin they had in their lives. Through out the week the murders mount up each day with a lawyer killed by greed, a hooker killed by lust, a model by pride and a drug user by sloth. The deaths show the killer to be patient and determined.
As each murder victims body is found, the killer leaves clues, daring the two detectives to find and catch him. Freeman using the library system to see who has been reading up on the Seven deadly sins, finds a man named John Doe. A shoot-out erupts outside the mans apartment leading Doe to escape, we as an audience never get to see his face through the pouring rain.. Happy they are on the right lead they search the apartment but are later angered and confused as the apartment contains no fingerprints....

Doe's lawyer tells the detectives the only way they will find the other two bodies is to drive John Doe out to a deserted field at a specific time to wait for instructions. The men accept and do as he asks leading them to a desert (the only scene in the movie that is light and sunny). A police helicopter is told to follow behind just in case.

As Freeman runs back to Pitt, Doe calmly explains he visited Pitt's wife and after killing her, he sent her head to his chosen location. Doe then explains that he envied the life of Pitt, so he has to be the victim of envy. He then asks a grieving Pitt to let the sin destroy and kill his life becoming the last of the victims, wrath. Pitt after much deliberation and grief against the advice of Freeman who states it's what he wants, if you kill him he wins, shoots Doe ending the sin cycle. Doe becomes the victim of envy, and as Pitt is led away in a police car, planned by Doe he will be the victim of wrath
Out of 10 I would give this film a 7 as I the ending and twist was predictable and the theme was just to graphic and creepy for me.
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