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Updated Dec 4, 2006

A superb and chilling thriller about two homicide detectives' desperate hunt for a serial killer who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The movie takes us from the tortured remains of one victim to the next as the sociopathic "John Doe" sermonizes to Detectives Sommerset and Mills -- one sin at a time. The sin of Gluttony comes first and the murderer's terrible capacity is graphically demonstrated in the dark and subdued tones characteristic of film noir. The seasoned and cultured Sommerset researches the Seven Deadly Sins in an effort to understand the killer's modus operandi while green Detective Mills scoffs at his efforts to get inside the mind of a killer...

The film stars Brad Pitt as Detective David Mills, Morgan Freeman as Detective Lt. William Somerset and Gwyneth Paltrow as Tracy Mills.

Very tight thriller, great script and perfect acting make this movie a must-see. It is a perverse logic that makes the final and seventh sin complete perfectly the circle of events begun with the first.