2016 · adventure · action · western
The Magnificent Seven
Directed by Antoine Fuqua2h 12m2016
Looking to mine for gold, greedy industrialist Bartholomew Bogue seizes control of the Old West town of Rose Creek. With their lives in jeopardy, Emma Cullen and other desperate residents turn to bounty hunter Sam Chisolm for help. Chisolm recruits an eclectic group of gunslingers to take on Bogue and his ruthless henchmen. With a deadly showdown on the horizon, the seven mercenaries soon find themselves fighting for more than just money once the bullets start to fly.
Our read: The Magnificent Seven (2016) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded adventure · action · western entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, extreme adventure / action, grounded in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
- tender
- epic-stakes
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