![]() Truly, “The Magnificent Seven” is a story of simple pleasures, and it gets the little things right. The inevitable pyrrhic victory has all the weight of a light summer breeze, though the bickering between Hawke and Lee is so enjoyable that most won’t mind. If anything, his first feature-length screenplay leans too hard on levity, prioritizing the ample chemistry between its leads over any real sense that these cowboys are in a battle for their lives. Pizzolatto (who co-wrote the script with Richard Wenk), seems to have shed himself of the dour machismo that made the second season of “True Detective” such an atrocity. Of course, part of the fun is that Chisolm and his pals are reluctant warriors, each a little salty and fatalistic about the task for which they’ve been hired. READ MORE: 13 Films We Can’t Wait To See At TIFF 2016 America’s disenfranchised are joining together to save the country from itself, fighting to defend a place they’ve been made to feel doesn’t belong to them - Donald Trump better hope this movie doesn’t catch on. ![]() Finally, the motley six become the magnificent seven when they cross paths with a deadly Comanche archer played by newcomer Martin Sensmeier. Next is South Korean superstar Byung-hun Lee (“I Saw the Devil”), perfect as Robicheaux’s knife-throwing partner in carnage. Case in point: The first of the good-hearted guns for hire she finds is Denzel Washington.įirst up is Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, playing a woefully underwritten Mexican outlaw who Chisolm lets off the hook in exchange for his help. Emma Cullen (“Music & Lyrics” star Haley Bennett) never becomes as well-realized a character as the movie pretends she is, but her presence is an early hint that the film has a mind towards reinventing the Wild West in a way that reflects more contemporary social norms. You know the people of Rose Creek are going to pool together their meager resources and hire a small group of (somewhere between six and eight) mercenary gunslingers to defend them, but - in this telling - a woman spearheads the effort. Where systemic injustice and business-related bullying are never permitted without a fight! At least not in the movies.Īnd so this is where things get interesting. The people agree to Bogue’s terms and peacefully surrender their land, the end. So he does what any decent corporate raider would do: He guns down a few of the strongest men in town and gives the helpless locals three weeks to abandon the town they built with their own hands. Bogue is a sociopath, but most of all he is a capitalist - Rose Creek is essential to his business, and when its residents refuse to clear out, he sees them as standing in the way of God. The basic structure of the story hasn’t changed a bit: The year is 1879, and the frontier mining town of Rose Creek is being bled dry by a mustache-twirling robber baron named Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard, who enjoyably dusts off the same mad-eyed villain shtick he’s previously used in the “The Green Lantern”). 'Alone Together' Review: Katie Holmes' COVID Lockdown Rom-Com Quietly Shines, Until It Doesn'tġ9 Best Erotic Thrillers, from Adrian Lyne to Brian De Palmaįrom 'Reality Bites' to 'Fatal Attraction,' Keep Track of All the Upcoming Film-to-TV Adaptations The seven of them, as well as Haley Bennett as the vengeful Emma Cullen who recruits them to defend her town, face off against the corrupt industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard) and his army of blood-thirsty men.New Movies: Release Calendar for June 17, Plus Where to Watch the Latest Films The new trailer highlights each of the seven outlaws, which in addition to Washington as bounty hunter and leader Sam Chisolm, includes Chris Pratt's explosive gambler, Ethan Hawke's sharpshooter, Vincent D'Onofrio's trapper, Byung-hun Lee's assassin, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo's Mexican outlaw and Martin Sensmeier as a Comanche warrior. ![]() A remake of the 1960 Western classic starring Yul Brunner, Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach and more, The Magnificent Seven brings about the racially diverse cast that the hashtags have been calling for - and it's completely organic. The new official trailer for The Magnificent Seven, starring Denzel Washington, is a lesson in diversity for all the whitewashed Asians, Native Americans and Egyptian gods before it. Lately, Hollywood has dealt us a series of disappointments when it comes to diversity in movies, but it may be a motley group of seven outlaws galloping in to save the day.
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