billybonney This has to be the best one of the series, end of story, the plot is bigger and badder than ever before. The characters OMG are cooler than Steve McQueen's Vin, you got Chris the lead again, Keno, Slater, Max, Levi, Cassie and P.J.! When I saw it, I had just moved and this made me love westerns forever! The plot based on the others is completely new the first two and the last one is all about saving towns, in this the stakes are harder, and badder a prison break. It's impossible in the beginning but possible in the end. Even Cassie thinks it's a joke "For money or for laughs?" Then Chris awesomely say's, "Well as much as you'd make in a year a hundred dollars, not very much laughs." Everyone is expendable in this. They might not like each other when they all meat but they all bond, for instance Levi and Emo, Chris and Keno, Slater and Cassie who are both a former confederate and a black man and this is 1969 when Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech aroused true diversity! The only negative about this film was P.J. the guy was just there to be the seventh. He's only got like two lines, we didn't know much about him other than he had tuberculous. If you look up the actor Scott Thomas he's basically an extra. He had no character development. This film will always be forever one of the Magnificent's of '69

inspectors71 I saw from George Kennedy in this pale and inconsequential sequel to The Magnificent Seven? I can't make up my mind on this. Kennedy had a shallow but pleasant repertoire of gimmicks in his acting. He radiated a pensive, pent-up fury that would boil over when he played a good-guy. His words would tumble out when provoked, and you knew the baddie would be taking a light shower when he got in the antagonist's face. I think that made him very believable. Unfortunately, it doesn't (he doesn't) seem to fit in this lazy, quiet Seven Samurai Go to Mexico Again outing. When confronted with one atrocity after another, perpetrated by evil Mexican soldiers against virtuous Mexican peasants, you're waiting for that fire to light. It probably fits the story of the character Chris, but you want some evil-doer to suffer a bit while Kennedy clenches down on his cigar.Director Paul Wendkos is no John Sturges, but he understands the basics of what made the Seven so appealing, and he keeps the movie moseying along to its inevitable shootemup climax.Lots of great old character actors here. Monte Markham does a Steve McQueen impression and fails (but we forgive him). Bernie Casey and Joe Don Baker bring along their respective backstories, and they do their The Defiant Ones shtick (more forgiveness). James Whitmore is an old knife-fighter, and I appreciated his yearning to drop all this killing stuff and go home.Michael Ansara is bad (behavior), Reni Santoni is worse (performance), and I'm sorry, I loved the little part of the worthless bandito leader, Frank Silvera. What a sleezoid!I kept wondering where I had seen him. It dawned on me--Hombre! "I wud like to know hees nay-ame."For all its not-even-a-a-blip-on-the-radar-ness, I liked the movie. Kind of like the way I like Mrs. Freshley's Honey Buns from the Dollar Tree. Totally devoid of anything other than some satisfaction.

Wizard-8 Of the three sequels to the original "Magnificent Seven" movie, "Guns of the Magnificent Seven" is the best. However, it still isn't a very good movie. The main problem with the movie is the fact that the middle section of the movie moves at an extremely slow speed. You can really sense the padding, and the 106 minute running time is just one sign of this. The movie not only needed to be shorter, but a few more action sequences would also have helped. And GOOD action sequences, because the action in the movie (even in the climatic battle sequence) is only so-so. The movie does have some merit. George Kennedy does pretty well inheriting the role that Yul Brynner played in the first movie, the supporting cast is also good, with some of their characters coming across as interesting. And the movie clearly had a budget; it looks pretty good. However, all this good stuff isn't enough to salvage the enterprise. I would only recommend this movie to patient (and die hard) western fans.

Spikeopath Guns of the Magnificent Seven is directed by Paul Wendkos and written by Herman Hoffman. It stars George Kennedy, James Whitmore, Monte Markham, Reni Santoni & Joe Don Baker. Music is by Elmer Bernstein and Antonio Macasoli is the cinematographer. It's the second sequel to The Magnificent Seven which was based on Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. Plot finds Kennedy and his assembled group of gunmen hired to rescue a revolutionary from a Mexican dictator. Routine but very watchable entry in the "Seven" franchise. It's nicely cast with Kennedy, Whitmore, Baker and Bernier Casey effective, and the photography from Macasoli is pleasing and makes the Spanish location feel period Mexico. There's also good value in the writing as regards the characters and their hang-ups, while the climax is high on noise and adrenalin. Clearly not a patch on the original film, and when it all comes down to it this film wasn't wanted or needed. But as it is, it's a decent time filler for those after a bit of standard gunslinging adventure. 6/10