Browser’s Magnificent Seven
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CRITICS promise this dark and violent Western will hold your attention from start to finish.
It’s a stylish throwback to classic John Ford Westerns with moments of pathos and comedy woven into a grim rescue mission.
A four-man posse heads into the wilderness to rescue a kidnapped woman from a tribe of cannibals. The showdown has the ferocity of a horror movie.
In a frontier town, savages break into the jail and abduct an injured prisoner and a woman doctor, spiritedly played by Lili Simmons.
Tough-as-teak sheriff Kurt Russell heads a rescue party. Along for the ride are his boozy, wise-cracking deputy Richard Jenkins, the abducted woman’s peaceloving husband Patrick Wilson, and sharp-shooting dandy Matthew Fox.
In 2015, writer Craig Zahler made an assured debut in the director’s chair.
Succinct dialogue and powerful set pieces are well handled by a hand-picked cast. The macabre climax is designed to shock.
Time Out called it: “A confident, terrifically enjoyable film, superbly written, shot and performed. Just be ready to lose your lunch when the hatchets come out.”
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