Antoine Fuqua's The Magnificent Seven is the story of seven outlaws who band together to protect a town from evil people(I honestly can't remember what they were).
The problem with this review is I can't remember the villain and his faceless army, along with other aspects of this film. I remember enjoying it at the time but now I realize it is forgettable. It suffers from the same problem as Man of Steel, and that is the last 30-40 minutes is pure action and destruction. In MoS I find the city destroying action to be out of place with the rest of the film(the first two thirds is the best film Zack Snyder has made), while The Magnificent 7 I feel earns its long climactic action scene as the majority of the film is building up to it. Having said that it all blurs into one and there are only a few memorable sequences from it.
I remember the seven being likeable and working well together, even if Manuel Garcia-Rulfio and Martin Sensmeier were there to fill out the seven and were given no character development outside of the wanted Mexican and the banished Native American. I was quite glad that they didn't take the easy way out and had characters die and make reasonable decisions instead of everyone miraculously surviving and making unrealistic plans.
I realise I've not talked about much but as I said, I've forgotten a lot of it.
In short: The Magnificent Seven is forgettable but has a cast that work well together and is fun at the time.
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