Wizard-8
Obviously with the title, the producers were trying to suggest that this movie had elements of the classic films "The Magnificent Seven" and "Seven Brides For Seven Brothers". Unfortunately, the movie ends up short, very short.To begin with, none of the members of the family are made into unique characters. They are just a mindless mob of people shooting and acting alike. In fact, sometimes it's hard during the action scenes to differentiate them from the bad guys! Another big criticism I have with the movie is that it doesn't take long for things to get very confusing. Not understanding what was going on, it was hard to get involved with what happens. Also, the print that currently plays on cable TV is full-frame, when this was shot in widescreen. This makes some scenes even more confusing.There is a decent musical score by Ennio Morricone, but that's not enough to save the movie. Even if you are a spaghetti western fanatic, like I am, I strongly suggest you skip this movie.
spider89119
This movie has a couple of interesting moments, but mostly it just tries to be "cute," and that doesn't really make for a good spaghetti western. Having a great music score from the master Ennio Morricone can't even save this one from being a below average example.The most notable spaghetti western regular in this film is Fernando Sancho, who is usually great to watch, but here his role is simply that of a crony, and he doesn't get to shine.As for the MacGregors, the senior members of the clan are gritty, tough old Scots, and I kind of liked them, but you don't really see that much of them in the film. The story focuses on the sons, who are so ridiculously happy-go-lucky it makes you sick. It's like watching a gang of seven Peter Pans, and they act like puppy dogs every time they see a pretty girl. In reality, these guys wouldn't survive very long in a brutal cutthroat western environment, yet somehow they do. The movie is also part love story, of course.The most notable part of the film is an especially brutal scene where a guy is repeatedly dragged through a fire.This one's kind of lame, and not really worth seeking out when there are so many better eurowesterns to choose from.
John Seal
There's nothing innovative or clever about this spaghetti western, but that shouldn't keep fans of the genre from giving it a chance. Robert Woods stars as handsome young Gregor MacGregor, one of seven sons of a Scottish ranching family in the Old West. Gregor and his brothers take a trip to Las Mesas to sell the family horses, but they haven't counted on the crooked presence of local heavy Crawford (Cris Huerta), who tries to bully them into accepting a bad deal for the beasts on behalf of crime lord Santillana (Leo Anchoriz). Determined to get the better of the baddies, Gregor insinuates himself into the gang and sabotages a number of their devious plots. Seven Guns for the MacGregors features wall to wall action, including a great barroom brawl accompanied by Chopin, and also works as a comedy thanks to some outrageous faux Scots accents. Beautifully shot by Fernando Ulloa, and nicely scored by Ennio Morricone, this is a fun movie best appreciated via RHV's beautiful PAL format DVD. Though IMDb lists the film with a 107 minute running time, this disc only runs 92 minutes, and seems to be complete.
dinky-4
This spaghetti western can be put into the "routine" category. It has one of those meandering plots which seems to have been put together from notes jotted on the back of an envelope. However, patient viewers will be rewarded by a few quirky moments which add touches of interest to the proceedings. For example, there's the piano player in the saloon who switches to classical music when brawls break out, there's a sequence in which the stripped-to-the-waist hero gets whipped across his bare back -- a flogging which ranks 48th in the book "Lash! The Hundred Great Scenes of Men Being Whipped in the Movies" -- and there's a nifty fight between the good guy and the bad guy involving a rotating waterwheel. What's more, the dubbed English voices trying, occasionally, for Scottish accents produce a few unintended chuckles. It's not much, but you take what you can get.
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