Magnificent Seven

Pros: Great assembly of superstars to be, Charles Bronson, Steve McQueen, James Coburn, and Robert Vaughn
Cons: Cheesy sound effects.

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

Action director John Sturges anticipated the spaghetti Western by quite a few years with this action favorite. With its instantly recognizable Elmer Bernstein score, The Magnificent Seven has remained...

Pros: great theme of story, good plot, very well cast
Cons: story lacked excitement, moved too quickly to fully develop plot or characters

A small town of Mexico has been ravaged by a band of desperados repeatedly, often leaving them with barely enough food to survive. Every year the same band of Mexicans invade their town, take what they want, and leave destruction in their path. Finally ...

Pros: Classic western, High Quota of Stars
Cons: Might seem daft by today's standards

I have seen Magnificent Seven in the TV way too many times. I own the VHS version (which like a good wine, has aged wonderfully) and recently indulged myself to the DVD version as well. I really enjoyed watching the movie one more time with my friends ...

Pros: a classic
Cons: can't think of any

I know what a Western is, believe me, I’ve seen approximately five during my not so short lifetime. Heehee, of course I know that you expected to see a bigger number, but there you are.

As if this weren’t enough to disqualify me,...

Pros: A Great cast, and a classic story
Cons: watered down from the source material

"We deal in lead, mister".

-Steve McQueen in The Magnificent Seven

Akira Kurosawa probably had more influence on American Westerns than any other director, despite never making a western. His films have been remade more than...

Pros: The score! The assembled cast! And some of the best one-liners in movie history!
Cons: It's a little tacky looking at it today...

If you’ve never watched The Magnificent Seven, then you don’t know what you’ve missed. Many critics have called this movie a “benchmark”, “milestone” and other such superlative accolades, but is it really? We’ve...

Pros: direction, cast, story, cinematography, score
Cons: characters, Vaughn, Buchholz

"The Seven Samurai" (1954) was an excellent and highly influential film from Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. It was adapted into a western by producer/director John Sturges, who specialized in action movies. The result was "The...

Pros: Strong cast, gripping action, on a wonderful DVD presentation
Cons: Horst Buchholz is really outclassed here.

If you are going to steal, steal from the best I always say. A Fist Full of Dollars? Kurosawa. Magnificent Seven? Kurosawa. Star Wars? Kurosawa. In fact the influence of Kurosawa sensei runs so deep through Hollywood that it's impact ...

Pros: Good for a western
Cons: Paper thin plot and characters.

The benevolent cowboys try to save the village from the malevolent villain. This is a western plot that everyone has seen again and again. John Sturges's The Magnificent Seven is no exception to this. This film fails to deliver an original story or...

Pros: action, plot, actors, rough and tough--big and bad characters
Cons: wanted more

If Yul Brenner didnt have his foreign accent, he could have been in any Western and considered the greatest Western star next to John Wayne. There are numerous scenes in this movie that are absolute classics and you will never forget. Without ...

Pros: Great western
Cons: You might find some tings wrong, but I prefer not to.

You can say a lot about "The Magnificent Seven". All of it mostly good. Even the bad is looked over because we love to root for heroes and here we have seven.
It was overheard when the movie came out that Eli Wallach had too white a...

Pros: action, adventure, historical times
Cons: not yet available in Dts sound

Before Akira Kurosawa, great westerns (high noon) often had a slow build up leading to action (shoot out) at the end. What Kurosawa did was start off with action, drums pounding, overwhelming odds... adventure.

John Sturges was having a...

Pros: Western done right, in the style of "Seven Samurai"
Cons: Misses some of the interaction of "Seven Samurai"

Okay, a bit flip for the intro, but this film is an homage to "The Seven Samurai".

The "Magnificent Seven" gives us the storyline of villagers being harassed by bandits, but its not 16th century Japan it is the wild west...