7 secondes

I just watched this on a DVD rental today. It was nice to see that this action film had an intelligent plot and good acting. It was predictable insofar as the culprit behind it all, but the action momentum kept things flowing for offset. Perhaps the one thing for me that dropped this movie down by quite a few notches was the action background music score. It is very hackneyed and was so much so that it was distracting. This drumbeat bit with symbols dum dum dum dam bit does get old and pray that movie makers begin to find a new and different cool sound to accompany action scenes. An example would be like how many times would it take to listen to the Mission Impossible theme for suspense and action in a broad range of action movies before you'd start screaming? Changing the "beat" would have made a difference in viewing this movie and given it more integrity.

If stepping back in time in how rating movies of the past now as low budget B movies, that's about where I would categorize this action flick (even if the budget may not have been low by today's standards).

If you're wanting to watch an action film with racing cars, bullets flying and Snipes flexing his muscles and bopping heads, then you won't be disappointed in watching this movie.

This film was really let down by bad direction. As well as all the inconsistencies; the car appearing less damaged the more it was hit, the pitiful attempt to add gunfire sound effects to Wesley's gun, etc. I thought also that the director was getting a little too experimental. After the first car chase the camera inverts for no reason i can guess at. Lots of cut-scenes toward the beginning of the film didn't really serve a purpose. When I see a film advertised with actors of Wesley Snipes calibre i expect good quality direction. The director of this film should leave his experimenting for film school, or at least for before the movie is filmed. Romania is a place I am interested in, a little different, maybe a bit exotic. The setting here never really developed. I didn't see anything in this film to suggest that it wasn't filmed in a studio, apart from a short clip of the city at night. If you want action and don't plan to be too sober, give it a go. If you want a film with soul, forget it. Nothing to get your teeth into here.

Wesley Snipes continues his decline into the DTV market, a tragic fall from grace, meaning he probably won't get the Oscar nomination that he was quite capable of getting. The tragic things is Snipes is too good an actor to be doing DTV action films. Seagal, Van Damme and Lundgren you would say aren't the greatest thesps so doing these simplistic roles suits them well, but Snipe is in no way going to be stretched, which is a shame.

7 Seconds is pretty perfunctory stuff with Snipes playing a thief who botches a job and of course has to spend the movie clearing his name and trying to retrieve what he lost, which happens to be a priceless Van Gogh. He ends up being aided by former Eastender (British Soap) Tamzin Outhwaite, as he gets into some bouts of fisticuffs and car chases.

While the film isn't great and director Simon Fellows, along with his editor go a little overboard in the MTV styled shenanigans, it marks an improvement over Snipes last effort Unstoppable, and indeed even an improvement on the dire Blade Trinity where Snipes clearly was half asleep. Here surprisingly Wesley has found some inspiration and puts in the effort, making the film that bit more watchable. The film has some neat action, particularly car chases, while the martial art bits may are brief but slickly done and performed with Snipes trademark swiftness.

7 Seconds isn't bad and indeed is actually one of Snipes better action films, but it still suffers from the DTV bad story and some poor effects, that look out of place in a film starring Snipes who starred in a 60 million dollar film before this. **

This is clearly the worst Wesley Snipes movie I have ever seen. And I have to say I was sorry that they didn't do better because it was shot in my country and I was looking forward to what they had done. It was also disappointing that in the car chase they took advantage of the fact that most people in this world don't know how Bucharest looks like and they had no continuity in the route they used. Every street or boulevard was in a different part of the city, even though the scene looked like the streets came one after another. The only thing I liked was that they used "Club Twice" (the club of one of the characters) in the movie, and that is one of my favorite clubs. If you're from Bucharest and you want to see how they used the place watch it. If you're not from Bucharest but still want to see how they used the place watch it. Otherwise don't waste you're time. P.S.: At least they didn't put vampires in the movie. It would have been to much, even for Romania.

"7 Seconds" was a goofy film. Of course it's full of clichés and stupid one-liners, but there's a lot of action and charm to spare. It's way better than "Unstoppable". Wesley Snipes plays Jack Tulliver, a thief who inadvertently steals an expensive Van Gogh painting. Now tons of gangsters are after him: dead or alive. Wesley Snipes was great as usual as the wise-cracking hero. The first car chase was a ton of fun and the action-packed climax was very cool. I'm surprised this went DTV. Wesley is too good for that fate. If he does another drama in the vein of "Disappearing Acts" and lay low on the action films, he can be on top again.

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