Directed by: Gabriele Muccino
Starring: Will Smith and Rosario Dawson

Proceed with Care: Spoiler Alert!!!!!
Okay, so I’m not really the moview review writer type. But, however, I really liked this movie and it took all of three days for me to go and finally see it after it came out. So here goes:
Seven Pounds stars Will Smith as Tim/Ben Thomas. I say it this way because 95% of the movie we think that he is Ben Thomas and for all of like 15 minutes towards the end of the movie we find out that he is actually Tim Thomas impersonating his younger bro, Ben Thomas, the IRS agent, got that? Okay, good.
It’s actually about redemption or what Tim/Ben thinks will be redemption for something that he so horribly did about a year and a half ago: kill seven people in a car crash, his fault because he took his eyes off of the road to check his crackberry. One of the victims is off course his soon to be wife. Unable to live with the guilt, he starts out on a mission to do seven good deeds for seven good people, by way of donating his organs, except for one whom he gave his beach front house to. The first one was his brother who needed a new lung. Thomas then goes on to find the rest of these good people by using his brother’s credentials as an IRS agent and making illegal inquiries through the IRS database. He finds Ezra, the blind guy, and Emily as his final two donors this way. By this time he has already donated one lung, one kidney, half a liver, some bone marrow (without anesthetics might I add), and off course his house. In between all of these events, Tim/Ben becomes involved romantically with Emily who is in need of a heart donor with a rare blood type. He tells Emily that when he was a little boy his dad took him to go see a bunch of box jelly fish and though he was told that they are the most dangerous creatures in the world, he falls in love with its beauty. This is important for the movie’s climax. But, to make a long story short, Emily’s time is running out and she is in dire need of a heart transplant. So , Tim/Ben goes to his hotel room, fills the tub with ice and water, gets in, and kills himself (after calling in the suicide,) by putting his box jelly fish in the tub with him (loved the irony). Off course, he dies quickly. Emily gets his heart and Ezra, gets his eyes. This makes seven organs that he donates, in addition to his house…..seven people.
I might have been a little sarcastic with the recap but this movie was pretty good. It was touching and was full of emotions from the get go. Granted, the plot was predictable, but that’s just it! I knew exactly what was going happen, but it still made me all teary eyed (and I am not a wuss by any means!). I think that Will Smith was great and Rosario Dawson was good too. Will Smith was convincing as the guilt ridden Tim Thomas. And, Rosario Dawson did a pretty realistic fall in one of the scenes, I mean ouch! I noticed that it did not fare too well in the box office, but who cares? It was something in the neighborhood of Pursuit of Happyness type of Will Smith-movie and if you liked Will Smith in that movie, you will like him in this one too.
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