Sunday, December 21, 2008

A.O. Scott's Seven Pounds review

. . . is here. Seven Pounds looks like the most spectacularly misconceived film in quite some time, as bad as Death to Smoochy or Twins. The spoiler-laden wikipedia page is here. Sounds like Pay it Forward meets Blink.Click below for a brief medical discussion on the major Seven Pounds spoiler.


Even if Will Smith is able to get his organs his chosen recipients, the odds of the organs surviving are extremely low. Most organ donors are close relatives, usually a brother or a sister. There's organ rejection, organ failure, and Graft-versus-Host disease (which Tobias Funke suffered after a hair transplant). Never mind the questionable viability of the organs after they have met a jellyfish.

2 comments:

Lawyer said...

I love that AOS took a wrecking ball to the Will Smith sanctimony. I couldn't even stomach the preview for Pursuit of Happyness and this looks bad enough to see, just for laughs. Smith should thank his lucky stars Peter Berg didn't allow Hancock to become messianic, too.

Doctor said...

Seven Pounds should be Item #1 at the next summit.