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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM

The Magnificent Seven
By Rouén Robinson
Sep 29, 2016 - 2:35:03 PM

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Justice Has A Number...

The desperate townspeople of a small town under the control of a crooked land baron must risk all they have on the hope of hired guns to free them of his tyranny. The seven gunmen who come to their rescue find themselves fighting for more than money as they prepare the town for the violent showdown on the dusty western horizon.

Sam Chisolm is a duly sworn warrant officer collecting bounties on the heads of outlaws, but when Emma Cullen comes to him after the death of her husband by the gun of Bartholomew Bogue, his aim is to settle an old score. Goodnight Robicheaux is a sharpshooter and Confederate veteran of the Civil War who now runs quick draw betting with his bodyguard and quick draw champion Billy Rocks. Joshua Faraday is a gambler with a love of drinking and brawling while traveling from one town to the next. Vasquez is a Mexican outlaw with a price on his head who joins as a way of avoiding the law a little longer. Red Harvest is a Comanche warrior trying to find his identity away from his tribe. Jack Horne is the soft spoken tracker looking for a cause that is worth his time and talent.

The Magnificent Seven is a joy to watch as a refresher on the classic western films of yesteryear. The all star cast do a great job of bringing the fun that was associated with those types of movies. If you like seeing the classic gun twirling before and after a shoot out along with the some stunt horse riding, then this is the motion picture for you. It was cool seeing Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke on screen together since Training Day as well as Chris Pratt and Vincent D'Onofrio on screen together after Jurassic World. Antoine Fuqua proves that he is a diverse director that can tackle a variety of subjects in his movies and a multi-racial production. The score by James Horner & Simon Franglen is able to evoke the right emotions with the each scene while hearkening to The Magnificent Seven score of 1960 with a touch of Horner's score from Willow in 1988 which brought to mind 1954's Seven Samurai. This movie is a blend of all the great cowboy tropes that we have seen through the years that reminds you why this genre of film was so popular for so long.

I rate this movie a 4 out of 5.

In Theaters

See other reviews by Rouén HERE.

Rouén Robinson has been an avid moviegoer since childhood and has been critiquing motion pictures for almost a decade. He has been a film critic for The Cinemas on Tempo and was a judge for F LIFF On Location: Grand Bahama Island, an off shoot of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF). Rouén lives in Grand Bahama and can be reached at redr1976@icloud.com and on Twitter @thereelrouen

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