7 Seconds (2005) Movie Review, Trailer, and Poster

USA, Switzerland, UK 2005
Director: Simon Fellows
Cast: Wesley Snipes, Tamzin Outhwaite, Deobia Oparei, Georgina Rylance, Pete Lee-Wilson, Serge Soric
Rating: R
Release Date: 28 June 2005 [USA]
Running Time: 1 hour 36 minutes

The Movie Review

Most people I know has a thing for Europe, be it Amsterdam, Athens, Brussels, Venice, Vienna or any other beautiful cities in Europe, and of course I'm included. But I also have a thing for an unlikely country, Romania. Now, this country is usually always connected with something creepy, so when I heard about a good action movie filmed in Bucharest -- it's not a horror or drama -- I was simply excited. So probably my review here could not be that perfectly even-handed, because it already entertains just by seeing the city.

That too not to say that 7 Seconds is an awful motion picture. As an action movie, 7 Seconds is actually interesting in


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its action scenes. However there is something that fellow moviegoers will have to overlook to truly enjoy this action film.

7 Seconds is headlined by Wesley Snipes, the actor that have been more famous because of his role as the badass vampire slayer in Blade, especially with the release of last year Blade: Trinity (2004). 7 Seconds was not intended for theatrical release since it's a direct-to-DVD movie, but at least with the presence of Wesley, 7 Seconds is fun enough to watch. And it's fast-paced too.

He is not a vampire slayer anymore.. Wesley Snipes is Jack Tulliver, an ex-military who is now works as a thief and is planning to do armored car heist full of money from the local casino. Jack plans his scheme with the help of his fellow military buddies and his Romanian girlfriend Suza (Georgina Rylance). Everything goes smoothly until an incident happens that leave Jack in the middle of fortune, he's in a bad luck for Suza is kidnapped but he also in a good luck for he steals a suitcase with Van Gogh painting that's worth more than all the money in the armored car. He has to figure out how to get Suza back and at the same time running from the hit men sent by the real owner of the painting, a Russian mafia boss named Alexsie Kutchinov (Pete Lee-Wilson).

This is a direct-to-DVD action flick, which means I didn't waste my time inside the theater only to watch it. But as a DVD, 7 Seconds is worth of renting. The action scenes are good and the dialogue even though silly and far from being intelligent, well...at least it catches up with the overall tone. Besides some of you might not always want to see a movie with clever lines. You know, sometimes watching gun fight, brawl and hearing silly mocking from the lead actor is a simple mindless fun that I actually need after seeing some heavy-themed movie.

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