warrenfountain As much as I enjoy the idea of playing chess with death and the dialogue between the two, I can't ignore the plainness that I felt in the gaps between the chess games. It's an interesting insight to Ingmar Bergman's mind and it is well done but it is also a bit dragged out and IMO not as incredible as the mass of 10/10 reviews would point towards.If you historically contextualize it, it is no doubt addressing philosophical questions in a far more open and poetic way than many would dare, all while maintaining a dark & lovely feel buttt it's a little rough watching it in 2018.

DanallWillham The Seventh Seal is a masterpiece of storytelling with film making. It creates the setting perfectly, the realistic and believable medieval story full of common beliefs of its time. The whole aspect of death is a powerful theme. The characters are memorable and mostly likable. The ending was perfect for the film. Amazing performances from everyone involved. The film did bore me at times, but that didn't last long and was most likely because I had to read subtitles. Overall an amazing film, I will have to watch more Bergman films in the future. This deserves a 10/10 without a doubt.

Cirja Onisim I watched this movie after reading the synopsis which sounded very interesting. A man playing a game of chess while trying to answer philosophical questions seemed interesting enough. But boy, it was a misleading synopsis, because the movie was nothing like that at all.Firstly, this movie has no plot. It's just some random people washing up the shores of something that the movie doesn't tell you about. I'll admit that the beginning looked interesting. But then I was waiting for something to captivate me, or make me curious about what's gonna happen next. None of those. There were just more random scenes with random characters which I didn't get their names... well to be honest I didn't even got the protagonist's name. The only character whose name I got was the Death. That should tell you a lot about how this movie handles it's characters. What I love about a movie is it's characters... characters with whom I can connect, understand what they're going through and care for what they go through. Here were just random characters for whom I care little or none at all, that just died or were tortured because of religion and that should have made me feel for them or ask myself philosophical questions about existence or God?(again the movie didn't have any philosophically believing dialogue that could make me ask myself philosophical questions). No they didn't because I couldn't connect with them. It was so simplistic that maybe that is why all the critics and reviewers here say this is a great movie. Well for me just didn't work at all.PS: I don't have a problem with the movie for being old. I've seen older movies that had quality. Oh, and speaking of quality the score is very good... but that is maybe the only good thing that I found in this garbage.

mrmut Seventh seal is a stunning, almost psychedelic epopee of a Crusader coming home.It will make you think, teach you about life, history, love, death, pain, disease, hell, heaven, God, Death, subservience, position, and many other things, and could even change the way you think.Magnificent.Rating 10 is usually hard to reach in anyone's list. In my world, the the movie needs to get as good as 2001, so it is very hard to get there. However, Seventh seal stands in its own category, and literally NOTHING touches it.