Gluttony. Greed. Sloth. Pride. Lust. Envy. Wrath. The seven deadly sins. To everyone, you can fall in to one of these categories, maybe even more. Pretty soon a cycle starts happening. One by one, people are getting killed. People who portray one of these sins. Down a list we go, crossing of each victim's sin off as we prepare to discover the next murder. Time and patience is the key to solving this case.

Det. Somerset (Morgan Freeman) is done. He wants out of his job. He just wants to retire in peace. That is until a spree of killings start happening. After a couple of murders, he and his new partner Det. Mills (Brad Pitt) discover a trend. They are all based upon the seven deadly sins. Now they're on the trail of a killer who will stop at no end to killing his victims. This film can definitely be defined as one of the best movies of the '90's. Probably the best crime film since The Silence of the Lambs. It is gruesome and very shocking, yet none of the murders happen on film. Only the remains. You see it as Mills and Somerset see it. Being directed by David Fincher (The Game, Fight Club) and written by Andrew Kevin Walker has its advantages as well. Both are very good at what they do. In this case, they are amazing! Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman both play their character with emotion and utter disgust for John Doe, who is played by none other than Kevin Spacey (who is un-credited). Se7en is disturbing and very realistic. It is a great movie and everyone should see it.

Audio: I have never really heard something so clear. I had heard that there was a scene in which Pitt and Freeman are outside of the Gluttony victim's house and the rain is coming down and it sounds amazing. Well it does. This is some of the best sound I have ever heard in my life. The sound was courtesy of the DTS track. In case you don't have DTS, there is a DD 2.0 track, but you will be poorly missing something amazing. Picture: Since this is a David Fincher movie, you are expecting a lot of dark scenes. In Se7en, there is no exception. But Fincher was able to go back to the negative prints of it and make some alterations to it. Most of the changes were dealt with the color. Compared to the 1997 DVD release, which was grainy, this anamorphic transfer is flawless. Not a single problem with the picture. New Line has been producing some of the best pictures and Se7en could possibly be the best I have seen on DVD so far.

Disc 1-This is a 2-disc set from New Line part of their "Platinum Edition" series. When you see that label, you are always in for a treat. Starting off on disc 1, we have 4 commentaries. The commentaries are divided into 4 sections entitled, "The Stars", "The Story", "The Picture", and "The Sound". The first one has Fincher who teams up with Brad Pitt to deliver an excellent track. Together they make it flow and it is one of the best tracks I have heard. There is also Morgan Freeman on the track, but sadly it is edited in so it is somewhat outta place and at times, a little off track. The other commentaries have other crewmembers, sound crew, and writer Andrew Kevin Walker. All of the tracks are edited rather than live so that they comes across as a disappointment. Disc 2 This is where the bulk of the extras lie. First up we have "Exploration of the Title Sequence". It contains 3 angles (storyboard, rough-cut, final version) and 6 audio tracks. The exploration is around 3 minutes but with the different angles and audio options, it can take you a very long time to get through. Then we have some extended takes (Car Ride in From Gluttony, Spare Some Change, My Future, Tracy Wakes Up from Light Sleep, Raid on Victors, and Pride), which are all trimmed down from the final version though some of them could have been left in because they were interesting. But for obvious reasons, you can't always do that. Then we have 2 alternate endings. One was shot and is just a storyboard. For each of these endings, there is the availability of commentary. A very interesting feature called "The Notebooks" takes a look into the process of creating the different notebooks John Doe used in the film. It sounded like a very hard process to create all of them, and some of the commentary by Clive Pearcy and John Stable is quite funny. If that wasn't enough, we have even more sections and more segments. This time we are taken into the production of the film. It is broken into different segments called Production Designs, John Doe's Notebooks, Production Photographs, Victor's Compositions, and Police Crime Scene Photographs. All of them are very interesting and most only around 2 minutes long. The longest running is 10 minutes, which is the production photographs. Last, but not least, we have a segment entitled "Mastering the Home Theatre". It is a 20+ minute video on how the post-production team was able to master the audio and video of Se7en. After the video, you can go to the "Telicine Gallery" which is divided into 3 scenes (Outside Gluttony, Inside Gluttony, and Coda). Then we have some promotional materials, which include the theatrical EPK and the theatrical trailer. Both are very good but the EPK is just the standard trick of promotion.

So, are you amazed? This is one of the best DVD's on the market. It can easily compete with T2 for the title of "Best DVD" available today. The audio and video are spectacular. And the extras are beyond anything I have ever owned before. Just when you think you may have finished the extras, there is more to see. Your set-up would also be very helpful to really enjoy the capability of these discs. The DTS track will blow you away. I congratulate David Fincher for once again putting together a great DVD. Now if only you could start working on another one of your gem's, The Game!