review

watched the movie 7 seconds starring wesley snipes last night.
it was a harmless, heist gone wrong double cross odd ball pairing type movie.
set in romania, wesley plays a disgraced soldier who is now operating a heist. it is all going smoothly until they end up stealing something they had not planned on, this gets them involved with another gang and that brings them to the attention of nato (following this?) also in the mix is the double cross in wesley's gang and now by coincidence one of the few british military police officers to be stationed at the nato base (none other than tamzin outhwaite of british tv fame..) she gets caught up in it, wesley steals her car, almost wrecks, they form a bond. everyone wants to blame wesley, not tamzin, the american military police don't like her (british and a bird!) she gets the info they can't. the other thing that has been stolen is a lost van gogh painting (it looks bigger than the case it is carried in - so i reckon it will end up creased...) more double crosses, more bluffs and more car chases.
eventually wesley and tamzin save the day and run off with the painting and some dosh.

it's a film that does not bear thinking about, does not warrant much analysis. in fact it not really worth the watching. some ok action, some nice touches with the camera angles. the location looks good. but if you have seen anyone of a number of heist gone bad or odd couple cop movies then this adds nothing to either genre. it is interesting to see tamzin in a movie role, she isn't too bad, wesley is wesley (and i suspect longing for the time when he was almost a serious actor and wished that like nic cage he can make action movies and still be allowed the chance to do films where he can show off his actor credentials....) the rest over act and mug the camera like they know this is their one chance of being in a direct to dvd movie.

only watch if you have absolutely nothing else to do with your time....