The Magnificent Seven is scheduled to release on 23rd September 2016. This one is the remake of the 60s movie starring Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen among other. After Ben Hur, this is another remake Hollywood has put out in a short time. One of the memorable parts of the old movie was the theme composed by Elmer Bernstein that had made the Western unforgettable. The remake has generated a lot of enthusiasm with 98 percent audiences rooting for its release this week.
The Magnificent Seven (2016) Cast
The Magnificent Seven remake casts Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke among others in this modern Western movie set in the 1870s Louisiana.
The Magnificent Seven (2016)
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Cast: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke
The Magnificent Seven (2016) Story
Rose Creek is small town of few hundred. But they are in the limelight or should we say crosshair of one Bogue. Why? Because they are sitting on huge reserves of Gold. Bogue and his army of men are forcing the townspeople to sell their land cheap. Anyone who objects, gets killed.
A jilted widow has decided to stand up to the tyrant. She enlists a bounty hunter Chisolm (Denzel Washington) to fight Bogue. The bounty hunter manages to round up a seven men to go to war with Bogue. And that is all to the story, as these men fight Bogue and his army of goons.
The Magnificent Seven (2016) Reviews
It has been a long time that mainstream Hollywood has made a Western movie. The closest I can remember was the Shanghai Knights with Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson. But viewers are surely in for a treat with this one. For a generation who has never indulged in Westerns there is more in store this year. For the old timers, it should be a nostalgic trip at the movie theaters.
Liz Braun at the Toronto Sun says the Cinematography, Music, Action and the social message, all work in unison to give viewers an entertaining couple of hours of cinema. What is also hard to miss in the movie is the diversity of this seven man crew which has a Mexican outlaw and a knife throwing Korean and is headed by a Black man.
Critics agree that the performances by actors are good. David Ehlrich points out that the movie gets the little things right and brings a fresh look to the old remake that will be accepted well by audiences at the Box Office.
Westerns are known to be slow-paced and may not resonate with today’s audience who prefer to read a synopsis rather than the whole book. But Jordan Hoffman thinks the movie is bit too slow toward the end and this could cause some angst in viewers.
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