Seven Pounds

Seven Pounds, the second collaboration between The Pursuit Of Happyness director Gabriele Muccino and Will Smith, is so much a product of phony emotions made manifest through its pretentious handling and a completely brain dead and manipulative story line, that while it is aimed straight at your heart, it ends up hitting your head the most. Assuming straight out of the bat that your audience is stupid has never served anyone well.

The climax is the crux on which the whole film hangs, and by the time you get to it by way of multiple weavings of the thread, you realize that this would....