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If you go by the reviews on Rotten Tomato, Will Smith’s latest flick “Seven Pounds” is not worth spending money to go to the theater to watch. Pretty much everyone was in agreement that “Seven Pounds” is a bit of an odd film, including the reviewers who rated it “fresh” as opposed to “rotten”. The film, starring Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson and Barry Pepper is described as an “emotional drama”. It presents Will Smith in the character of Ben Thomas who is an IRS agent with a secret past who “embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.”

Reviews are overall negative. One reviewer referred to the film as “manipulative dirge disguised as a deep rumination on sacrifice and redemption”, another called it a “well-intentioned misfire”. The movie has been described using words and phrases like, “indigestible grandiosity”, “distasteful”, “slow and sappy”, “convoluted”, “mawkish”, “disappointingly shallow”, “maddeningly coy”, “hollow”, “absurd”, “preposterous”, “rickety” , “overthought”, “unconvincing”, “ghoulish”, “dumb”, “half-baked”, “Inspirational misfire”, “ludicrous”, “morally beclouded”, “schmaltzy”, “falsely mysterious”, “muddled”, “wholly unbelievable”, “trite”, “somnolent”,”pretentious”, “dour”, and “Dispiritingly obvious”.

After reading the reviews I was left wanting to see the film because I find it hard to believe it could possibly be as bad as all that.