The Magnificent Seven [DVD] [2016]

Evening watch on the television

A terrific all action western with a great cast. A brilliant addition to a western collection.

Great film didn't leave the sofa from beginning to end

LIked all, from delivery speed to price

A really great dvd this version of a good film, is better than the original

Directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Nic Pizzolatto and Richard Wenk. Starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D'Onofrio, Byung-hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Haley Bennett and Peter Sarsgard. Music is by Simon Franglen (also working from a James Horner template) and cinematography by Mauro Fiore.Seven gunmen band together to aid the town of Rose Creek whose inhabitants are being driven out by ruthless capitalist Bartholomew Bogue.We are now in an age of film making where "tagged classics" are no longer sacrosanct. Any number of these "tagged classics" have been and will become viable for remake - reboot - reimaging for newer audiences. It's here, it happens and really there's nothing we can do about it but moan amongst ourselves. John Sturges' 1960 The Magnificent Seven (itself a remake of Kurosawa pic Yojimbo) is a much loved film, and not just in Western lovers circles, it's a film that non Western fans are known to enjoy - and rightly so, it deserves its place as a "tagged classic" and still enthrals over 50 years since its release. So the big studio big wigs and Antoine Fuqua were taking a major gamble remaking a classic remake with their own remake!Undeniably the shadows loom large over the 2016 version, so much weight of expectation, in fact to some it was a stinker of a film even before it was released! Well, as those who have seen it will attest, both the fans and the dissenters, it hasn't raised the bar for the "Seven" formula, but, and this is very key here, the makers wasn't setting out to make a film that down the line would be a perceived a "tagged classic", and this is evident in the ream of extras available on the Blu-ray releases. They achieved what they set out to do, to make a blunderbuss Oater for the modern era to sample, and they have done it with much love, much cool and lashings of technical greatness. Add in a cast clearly enjoying themselves and not letting anyone down, and it's a tasty plate of beans.Fuqua updates things by having his seven as a row of differing ethnicity's, which works a treat, and crucially he and his writers are respectful of those characterisations, even if a bit more fleshing out wouldn't have gone amiss. Yet nothing is at a cost to honouring the great Westerns of old. Beautiful landscapes envelope the players, the musical score bouncing around man and nature with homaged sweetness. There's closeups, silhouetted slices of panache, superb stunt work (man and beast), glorious set design, and then there's the action. The fight sequences are excellently constructed, a feast for the eyes and ears, death and slaughter unfurled in brutal but hunger appeasing strokes. There's comic relief about the place, and while much of the dialogue wouldn't have the great poets of yore troubled, there is deepness to be found. Intelligence, too, the addition of PTSD to one of the main players is a notable piece of worth, while how wonderful to find a Western lady character of great substance (Bennett excellent), so good in fact she could have been one of the seven!It's a bare bones story, with a pointless motive revelation tagged on for the finale, while some anachronisms will irritate those bothered by such. But if you are able to judge it on its own terms, as a Western entertainment for this era, and to accept it isn't trying to outdo the source of its inspiration, then a good time can readily be had. 8/10

Absolutely brilliant film

Very good film

Excelente producto, tiene doblaje y subtitulo en español

Edición alemana con audio castellano en el disco 4K

Remakes, like sequels, can usually be counted on to disappoint. Whatever the magic was that made the original great is generally lacking in any follow-ups. So, I am pleasantly surprised to be able to say that the remake of the Magnificent 7 is, in its fashion, every bit as good as the original, which is a classic. In this version, Denzel Washington leads a band of knight errants similar to those Yul Brenner led back in the day. There are some thematic changes however, which I'm again happy to report not only work, but make this movie one that can stand alone on its own merits. This time around, the action takes place in the U.S. at an earlier period in the Wild West. Instead of a group of Mexican bandits, Washington & his 6 compadres are tasked with ridding a U.S. town of a sadistic mine owner whose henchman terrorize & kill the townspeople with impunity. That conflict certainly has a more modern flavour to it, although the violence & depredations committed by the mining company were, in fact, more common in the Old West than most histories of that period acknowledge. The members of the group have been modernized as well. Washington's character, a Black man, is its leader, a leader who, as it turns out, has some personal reasons for wanting to confront the mine company owner. Ethan Hawke's character is suffering from PTSD occasioned by his service in the Civil War. As well, there's a hint that his relationship with his male Asian sidekick extends beyond the trail & into the bedroom. Chris Pratt is fast with his guns & with card tricks, abilities somewhat marred by his incipient alcoholism. Vincent D'Nofrio's quasi Mountain Man character made his reputation by collecting the bounty offered by various branches of the Federal & State governments for Indigenous scalps, another practice that many histories of the period tend to gloss over. Rounding out Washington's 7 are a Latino gunfighter & a young Comanche warrior. As well, & unlike many Westerns in this genre, there is also a strong female character, a woman widowed by the mining company's thugs who gets revenge by first helping to recruit & then fighting with the 7. Now, in less deft hands & less deft actors, this movie could easily have slipped into a parody constantly tripping over its "woke" conventions. Instead, the "modern" themes, when they're explored, are woven seamlessly into the story. You recognize them, but, because of the way they're presented, you accept them as a part of the tale & not an add-on.So, butter up some popcorn & settle in for a glimpse of the Old West as it most likely was.

Cumple con todas las expectativas

In the 1960’s this movie was first made. I watched it as a child. This new remake of an old classic is far superior to the original.