7 Seconds (Video 2005)

When an experienced thief accidentally makes off with a Van Gogh, his partner is kidnapped by gangsters in pursuit of the painting, forcing the criminal to hatch a rescue plan.

Director:

Simon Fellows

Writer:

Martin Wheeler

Stars:

Wesley Snipes, Tamzin Outhwaite, Deobia Oparei

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Wesley Snipes	...	Jack Tuliver
Tamzin Outhwaite	...	Sgt. Kelly Anders
Deobia Oparei	...	Spanky (as Dhobi Oparei)
Georgina Rylance	...	Suza
Pete Lee-Wilson	...	Alexsie Kutchinov
Serge Soric	...	Mikhail
Andrei Ionescu	...	Frank 'Bull' Mercea
Elias Ferkin	...	Pro 1
Bogdan Farkas	...	Pro 2
Tomi Cristin	...	Captain Szabo
Adrian Lukis	...	Vanderbrink
Stephen Boxer	...	Underhill
Adrian Pintea	...	Grapini
Corey Johnson	...	Tool
George Anton	...	Banner

Storyline

When an experienced thief accidentally makes off with a Van Gogh, his partner is kidnapped by gangsters in pursuit of the painting, forcing the criminal to hatch a rescue plan.

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Plot Keywords:

thief | gangster | painting | interracial romance | showdown | 

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Taglines:

Timing Is Everything.

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Genres:

Action | Thriller | Crime

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence, language and brief sexuality

Details

Country:

UK Romania Switzerland USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

16 August 2005 (Netherlands)

Also Known As:

7 Segundos

Filming Locations:

Bucharest, Romania

Box Office

Budget:

$13,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Andrew Stevens Entertainment, Donald Kushner Entertainment, 7 Second Film Co. Ltd.

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

In the car chases (with the silver Opel Calibra) the streets used are in different parts of Bucharest and the shots keep jumping from an area to another and back as if one street followed the one before.

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Quotes

Alexsie Kutchinov: We have a saying in my country - don't blame the baker, when the butcher bakes the bread.
John Tuliver: What the hell does that mean?
Alexsie Kutchinov: It means you're fucked.

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Connections

Referenced in Bad Movie Beatdown: The Marksman (2012)

User Reviews

7 seconds is all this film deserves in your time !!

On my, oh my, where has the promising career of Wesley Snipes gone, he mixed it up with Stallone in demolition man, played alongside Sean Connery in Rising Sun, even had his own comic book trilogy of movies, and now he's decided to muscle in on Seagal, Van Damme & Lungren territory - the straight to video market ! This film sucks in most departments, the only reason I gave it 3 stars is a few of the action scenes were decent and the ending was OK, in the sense it woke me from my comatose state that the rest of the movie put me in ! The script is so bad that actors have absolutely nothing to work with, for a 90 minute movie it drags unbelievably from one scene to the next. just when you think the storyline is going to pick up they start showing you flashbacks of scenes earlier in the movie which you've already scene a thousand times !!, Tamzin Outhwaite does OK with the little characterization she is given, apart from spitting out some cheesy cockney lines god knows where they picked up from and looking pretty she isn't asked to do much else. Wesley also does a credible job if you can call it that with this scrip, though I use the term credible lightly because he should have his head read for choosing this script ! the story line is so full of holes, and pointless narrative its a waste of time me even writing about it, as a snipes fan I watched this, and recently with the likes of Zig Zag, Undisputed and then Unstoppable coming from Wesley I was hoping for an upturn in quality, but yet again he failed me with this film, so poor I can't believe I wrote this much about it !!