One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Several years after their heroic defense of a small Mexican village "Chris" (Yul Brynner) is told that a group of about 50 gunmen have ridden into the town and taken all of the men to an undisclosed location in the desert. Wanting to help his friend "Chico" (played by Julian Mateos) who was one of the men taken and a former member of the initial Magnificen Seven, Chris sets about recruiting men to come to assist him in his efforts to free them. Naturally, with time being an important factor, Chris begins his search for tough gunmen in the most obvious place—a Mexican prison. Sure enough, he finds a couple there and with a little luck adds a few more before setting off to find the hombres responsible. But this time they can expect nobody else to help them. Now, rather than reveal any more I will just say that, other than Yul Brynner, there were no actors of a similar stature to lend their support. In any case, while this wasn't a bad film necessarily, it didn't quite measure up to its predecessor and I have rated it accordingly. Average.

This first sequel to "The Magnificent Seven" is a disappointment. It is not a BAD western - there are a few bits of genuine merit to be found here and there. It was given an ample budget so that the production values look pretty good, and director Burt Kennedy captures the Spanish landscape well. He also directs the action sequences fairly well. The main problem, however, is the script (by Larry Cohen, of all people.) While the story runs a half hour or so less than the original movie, it feels like it moves a lot slower, with a lot less action sequences sprinkled in. An even worse problem is with the depiction of the characters. Most of the seven protagonists are given very little detail; we hardly learn a thing about them. It's even worse with the villain - we have to wait until almost half the movie has passed before he makes his first appearance, and while his motivations for what he is doing are kind of interesting, in total there's not enough done to make his character a strong and memorable villain. The best that can be said overall for this movie is that it's not the worse entry in the series - that dubious honor goes to "The Magnificent Seven Ride".

Yul Brynner returns as gunfighter Chris, who is recruited by old friend Chico(now played by Julian Mateos, taking over from Horst Bucholz) to return to his village that has been raided by a powerful landowner, who has kidnapped the men for his own purposes. Chris agrees to help, and enlists old friend Vin(Robert Fuller, taking over from Steve McQueen) and new members of the "7", including actors Claude Akins & Warren Oates.Disappointing sequel has some good action, but a limp plot, and is generally an inferior rehash of the first, though Brynner is still good, and Fuller a decent substitute for McQueen.This must have done well though, since two more sequels were made(without Brynner!) Haven't seen them, don't plan to.

Remake of the 1960 original is essentially the same story revisited, with Brynner reprising his role as Chris, while Robert Fuller substitutes for Steve McQueen and Julian Mateos vice Horst Buchholz. This time Emilio Fernandez and right hand man Rudolfo Costa led 60-strong bandits sweeping across peasant villages, enslaving all the men to work on Fernandez's obsession of building a church as a shrine to his dead sons for whom he still grieves. When Mateos is taken in one of the raids, his wife (Montes for Rosenda Monteros) locates Brynner and he quickly sets about assembling another magnificent seven to defeat Fernandez. The story thereafter is just the same.Eclectic cast includes Claude Akins as the brooding loner, Warren Oates chasing tail wherever he can find it, Virgilio Teixiera as an ageing gunslinger who narrowly avoids the hangman and Jordan Christopher as a poor Mexican chicken thief brought along for luck. Fernando Rey also appears as a morally conflicted priest who wants a church for his pilgrims, but disagrees with Fernandez's methods to achieve that goal. Each of the characters has a cross to bear and as in the original, we learn about their path to redemption throughout the story. Elmer Bernstein's familiar score is once again on display and Burt Kennedy's experience with the genre is evident in his handling of the subject matter.But despite a good cast, "Return" is just an inferior remake; the dialogue is at times overly sentimental and the characters aren't as well drawn as in the original, just shallow replicas. A disappointing sequel attempt. Followed by "Guns of the Magnificent Seven" in 1969 and "Magnificent Seven Ride" in 1972.