THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN

Plot:

When Emma Cullen (Bennett) watches her husband get gunned downed by a ruthless and greedy land baron named Bartholomew Bogue (Sarsgaar) while his men ravish the town leaving the residents scared and helpless, her heart becomes consumed with revenge. One day while she is in a neighboring town gathering supplies she happens to come across the fast gun drawing Sam Chisolm (Washington) who is a bounty hunter who was there to take claim on a reward. She pleads with him to help her take revenge on the man who murdered her husband and who has taken over her town. When he realizes that it is Bogue, someone he has had a previous unpleasant encounter with, he accepts her proposal but needs to round up some men to help him go up against Bogue's army of killers. He enlists the help of the gambling grifter Josh Faraday (Pratt), his old buddy Goodnight Robicheaux (Hawke), Goodnight's sidekick Billy Rocks (Hun Lee), trapper Jack Horne (D'Onofrio), wanted killer Vasquez (Garcia-Rulfo) and a rogue indian named Red Harvest (Sensmeier), who together along with the remaining townsmen plan to take back the community and kill Bogue in the process. But they must come to terms that this is a suicide mission because it is only a few of them against hundreds of hired gunslingers for the land grubber.



Reel Talk:

It has been years and I mean I was a young boy when I had seen the original 1960 version of The Magnificent Seven, so honestly I vaguely remember the details about it. I just remember that it was a classic western film that my parents liked and Yul Brynner was the star. So now here it is 2016 and the remake was hatched with Denzel Washington as the star and I really didn't know what to expect from this movie. I really thought that it would no way compare to the original nor any other current western movies that I have seen and liked (because I really like a good cowboy movie). But was I so far from being wrong! This was a great western movie, with a great cast that reunited Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke and director Antoine Fuqua who worked together on Training Day. I was completely engaged into this movie and despite the outcome was wishing that this could have been the beginning of a franchise series like The Fast and The Furious films, we would see The Magnificent Seven 7: The Rocky Roads...LOL! But seriously this was a well done film that will keep you interested and entertained. I don't think they could have done a better job than they did casting for the seven western heroes. This is a must see!!!

Starring: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Byung-Hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin

Sensmeier, Haley Bennett and Peter Sarsgaar
Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Rated: PG-13

I give it 5 corn dogs.