Roger Ebert later said the movie "was unsuited to Meyer's strongest points, which are eroticism, action and parody in about equal doses. "The Seven minutes" was intended as a serious consideration of pornography and censorship and, alas, that is the way Meyer approached it. He got serious about the theme. He had been harassed for years by various amateur and professional vigilantes, and intended "The Seven Minutes" as his statement against censorship. The result, whatever it was, was not a Russ Meyer film in the classical vein."