The Magnificent Seven(2016) movie review

The Magnificent Seven (2016) is a readapted from a Western classic of the same name. I said readapted because the original Magnificent Seven was adapted from Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai.

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Why Samurai movies are perfect to be adapted for Western movies and vice versa? Because the Feudal Japanese era is not far off from the Wild West. The Samurai’s Code of Bushido is similar to the code of the Wild West.

I got to watch the original movie when it was broadcast on local station back when there was neither cable nor internet yet. Unlike the original, the new Magnificent Seven has diverse ethnicity. The original Seven were dominantly white with one Mexican. The diverse Seven now has a black, Native American, Mexican and an Asian. The movie is also inclusive when they show Haley Bennett's character can just put up a gun fight like as well as the Seven.

The reboot was not far from the original. They only change the setting. The town they were helping in the original was a Mexican town. But the re-imagined was loyal to the original source. What made this remake different was the special effects are more realistic.

This movie also used the original Magnificent Seven theme which was mistaken by most as the Marlboro Cigarette theme but it was the cigarette company that paid to use it for their TV plugs. I recommend this movie for this week because we never had any Western movie lately and I am glad it got back to the movies. Hopefully it will give more Western movies a chance. The original had sequels but it didn’t give justice to the original. I just hope that if this reboot will make a sequel, it will be better.

Previewed last September 19 at IMAX cinema of SM Megamall. For more quality movie reviews for the geeks, follow this blog and like L.E.N.S. blogs on Facebook.