Every David Fincher Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

While it feels completely and utterly wrong not having this film at number one on this list, this is not to say that the second project directed by Fincher isn't as perfect as films get. Without doubt the best Neo-Noir movie ever created, Se7en displays Fincher at his craftiest, most nihilistic and most devastating.

Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt share a dynamic chemistry as the disgruntled retiring Detective Somerset and young bright eyed Detective Mills, who set about capturing a mass murderer. The movie dares to slow down in the second act and initially seems to focus too much on Gwyneth Paltrow's seemingly insignificant character of Tracy, the wife of Detective Mills. By film's end though these scenes prove to be not only the most important, but ultimately the most disturbing.

Fincher lays the groundwork for the chilling finale in the film's opening two acts, which would have hinted to the bleak ending if not for Fincher's mastery as a filmmaker. The bleak colour palette that resides throughout the majority of the film gradually dissipates as the final act begins, with a more jovial tone and light hearted banter between the detectives leading us all down the garden path. The bright sunny day then slowly bleeds into the desert surrounds and before we know it, Fincher has managed to leave a permanent imprint on our psyche with the reveal of just what was 'in the box'.

Se7en is a truly brilliant film, but Fincher has actually produced one better...