sergelamarche This is a nice remake. An equal opportunity shoot them up film, with a battle ending. Lots of little ind... wait, hem, little evils working for Bogue to shoot. Litterally, they replaced the bad indians easy to shoot by bad englishes easy to shoot. Great shooting though, but not enough french to be taken seriously.

aguti-09325 Brutal just brutal to watch. Don't mind a decent western but good Lord. Hopefully movie didn't go over budget. And for the folks who actually paid a ticket... ouch.

merelyaninnuendo The Magnificent SevenIt takes it time to set the plot and characters and doesn't offer anything after that too; it's just a film that is stretched with the compilation of different clichéd characters and the troubles they bring with it.

cinemajesty Movie Review: "The Magnificent Seven" (2016)Director Antoine Fuqua, on a high tide in Hollywood with two hits in 2014 "The Equalizer" and "South Paw" in 2015 respectively, takes on a remake of a remake, based on "Seven Samurai" directed by Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998), utilizing the established classic western setting from John Sturges's Hollywood remake in season 1959/1960.The ensemble cast is magnificent. All up front leading actor Denzel Washington as the character Chisolm, who shares screen-time with side-kick humour-integrating actor Chris Pratt as Faraday. Together they assemble the Seven to protect villagers against ruthless playing antagonist Bartholomew Bogue, portrayed by actor Peter Sarsgaard. Screenwriter Nic Pizzolatto, known for preparing the outstanding TV-series "True Detective" (2014-2018), turns all twisting corners in order to make the 2016 upgrade of the original worthwhile; a great entertainment to encounter at any time. Supporting actor Ethan Hawke, performing as Goodnight Ribecheaux, lets us feel the struggle of showing one of the newly created characters for the picture as a sharp-shooter, finding his target point again, through the on-going exciting storyline.The secret ingredients of a pure out for entertainment screenplay has been further creatively adapted from the original from 1954, where seven samurai in feudalistic Japan were the defenders of the villagers, and the 1960 also star-spangled western remake with actors Steve McQueen & Yul Brynner (1920-1985) leading ahead in order to make a action-drive with push-pull dynamics in cinematography by Mauro Fiore, and surprising turning points that are not already given away upfront when the spectre knows the predecessor's picture inside out as just happened with this month's "Murder On The Orient Express" (2017) directed and starred by Kenneth Branagh.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)