Action-packed thrills with a perfunctory storyline and little in terms of character development. Yet, surprisingly, it doesn’t matter one jot.
Director Antoine Fuqua reunites with Denzel Washington in an engrossing and exciting (second) remake of Kurosawa’s Japanese classic. Lots of shoot outs and macho strutting as a vengeful widow hires the group to protect her town from the private army of a wealthy landowner – but then, it is a western.
And I love the political statement at the end (of the seven, check out who survives!)
Rating: 73%
Director: Antoine Fuqua (Southpaw, Training Day)
Writer: Nic Pizzolatto (TV’s The Killing), Richard Wenk (The Equalizer, The Mechanic) – based on the film The Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa
Main cast: Denzel Washington (Training Day, The Equalizer), Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy, Jurassic World), Ethan Hawke (Training Day, Before Midnight), Haley Bennett (Marley & Me, The Equalizer)
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