GamerTab That was an excellent one.

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Aiden Melton The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

morrison-dylan-fan With a friends birthday coming up,my dad decided that due to him being a fan of the first Magnificent 7,that he would give him one of the sequels as a present. Since neither me or my friend had seen any of the other titles in the series,we decided that it was time to once again join the Magnificent Seven.The plot:Building momentum in rallies against President Díaz dictatorship, Quintero and his fellow dissidents are arrested and placed in a maximum security prison.Just before he is sent to jail, Quintero gives fellow dissident Maximiliano O'Leary $600,and tells him to buy weapons so that the battle can continue.Ignoring Quintero's suggestion, O'Leary secretly crosses the board to search for legendary cowboy Chris Adams.Locating Adams just after he has helped a fellow outlaw to escape a hanging, O'Leary offers Adams $600 to help him free Quintero. Adams accepts the offer but on one condition,that he is able to gather a gang of cowboys and pay them $100 each,so that they can take on the full force of President Díaz army.View on the film:Backed by returning composer Elmer Bernstein rousing score,director Paul Wendkos gives the film an elegant appearance,with Wendkos cowboy silhouettes setting the Western mood,as Wendkos tightly-held shootouts allow the bullets to fly across the screen.Along with the Western kicks, Wendkos also gives the movie a surprisingly eerie horror edge,thanks to Wendkos using stark wide shots to show prisoners hanging from the prison walls,and bringing the camera down to the ground ,to show prisoners getting their heads crushed by horses.Giving each of the gang a moment to display their talents,the screenplay by Herman Hoffman gives the film an interesting real life element,as a young Emiliano Zapata helps the gang in their battle to free Quintero.After the origins of the gathering of the cowboys leads to the title having a light,playful atmosphere,Hoffman takes an impressively dark turn for the films blistering final shoot out,as Hoffman reveals that the gang were magnificent enough to survive the battle with Diaz,but were not magnificent enough to survive the war.

classicsoncall It occurred to me while watching that by now, there must be a few decades worth of new movie goers who have never heard the Marlboro theme since cigarette commercials were banned from TV. But you hear it here over the opening credits and repeatedly afterwards as it complements the action on screen. I don't know if the music has an actual real title, but if you were around during the era, you'll know exactly what I mean.I guess like most viewers, the original Magnificent Seven is the film I like best out of all the permutations. Except for George Kennedy and James Whitmore, the rest of the cast here is a B list of actors that fails to compare with the likes of McQueen, Brynner, Bronson and Coburn. Since the story line is a retread as well, the case for originality goes out the window too.Still, there were a few novelties, like the Mexican villagers buried up to their necks, which was only the beginning of their torture. The 'cave of the rats' prison sounded intriguing too, but in hindsight they must have been referring to human rats because I don't think I saw any of the furry kind. Probably the best thing going for the picture was the dialog with gems like my summary line and little Emil's "How big do you have to be to die"? But one thing about the story still bothers me, and that's when the Seven ambushed the Mexican soldiers the first time and they wound up surrendering. Why didn't they just ride away?

MartinHafer I was going to say that "Guns of the Magnificent Seven" isn't as good as the original, but the original would be Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai". Well, the original American remake of this film, "The Magnificent Seven", is pretty much what you're getting here--but with a much less exciting cast. Otherwise, it's very, very familiar--like a remake of the remake! While George Kennedy, Joe Don Baker, Bernie Casey, James Whitmore and the rest try, you can't help but think that they are a second-rate cast compared to Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, James Coburn and the rest in "The Magnificent Seven". This is especially a problem because Kennedy is supposed to be playing Brynner's character--a man who looks and acts nothing like him!! Kennedy is a fine actor--but not nearly as menacing and intensely cool as Brynner. I tend to think of him as the nice-guy character from "The Dirty Dozen" or the likable lug from "Cool Hand Luke". Heck, they even forgot to dress Kennedy's character up in black! As for the rest, it's pretty much the same--nice actors but that's all. The music, by the way, is exactly the same as in the first film. The only real differences were the bad guys--federal troops instead of just bandits AND the racial element which was included in the 1969 version since race had become a HUGE national issue between the films. Overall, a very entertaining but stale film. It's just not different enough and seems like a remake of "The Magnificent Seven" instead of further adventures of these men. It is, however, marginally better than the previous film "Return of the Magnificent Seven".

ianlouisiana "When love congeals it soon reveals the faint aroma of performing seals" wrote Lorenz Hart who knew a good few things about love,the movies and even performing seals for all I know.Certainly a seal - like aroma pervades this truly terrible rip - off (sorry,sequel) to a much - loved original.Any remaining goodwill is soon dispersed with the appearance of George Kennedy (with a laughable syrup) as a narrow - eyed cigar chomping "Chris".He is squeezed into trousers at least two sizes too small which has the effect of making his bum resemble that of a less than athletic hippopotamus and has trouble bending down - let alone running.He recruits a crew of second - rate (James Whitmore always excepted)TV actors to rescue Fernando Rey who would quite like to escape from a Mexican prison and who can blame him? Bernie Casey plays a "Blaxploitation"dude a hundred years before his time ,is handy with a Gatling gun and often artistically covered with sweat but - like the others - dies with a whimper rather than a roar. The only other even vaguely interesting figure is Joe Don Baker as a disabled ( or crippled - as he delicately puts it)Confederate Civil war vet who,like Chris,can hardly hobble and it is hardly a surprise that he is less than adept at dodging bullets when the time comes. George Kennedy only seems happy when he is leaning against a doorway/hitching post/adobe wall lighting a cigar and narrowing his eyes - he does a lot of that. In the circumstances it is almost a blasphemy to use Elmer Bernstein's iconic music and it only serves to underline how far down the path of mediocrity "Guns of the Magnificent Seven" has wandered. A lot of Mexican soldiers are slaughtered at the end - a large proportion of whom are,for some reason not wearing a shirt.Kennedy and Whitmore ride off into the sunset.Hopefully the next time he tries recruiting mercenaries at a hundred bucks a pop he will go for quality rather than quantity.