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... View MoreGunfighting maverick Chris Adams is now happily married and has settled into his mundane life as a lawman in a small Texas town. However his hopes of retirement are dashed after his wife is kidnapped and brutally murdered by a trio of young thugs. Chris sets out on their trail and tracks them across the border where he takes his revenge. Although it turns out that our hero will have to go back to doing what he does best after he stumbles upon a town that has been left at the mercy of outlaw Detorro and his vicious band of killers. The men have been massacred and it is only the women and children who are left, prompting Chris to assemble five convicts, a newspaperman and a deadly arsenal of dynamite and long range rifles to do battle with the bandits one last time.Lee Van Cleef took a break from the Sabata trilogy to film The Magnificent Seven Ride!, the final movie in the Seven Samurai inspired quadrilogy. As always , Van Cleef brings his sardonic Colonel Mortimer-esque charm to the role and executes his portrayal with chilled assurance. After his work with Leone, the in-and-outs of the western became second nature to him, he seemed like a cool guy to have around and the western was his genre. The other actors that the seven comprised of, with the exception of Luke Askew, were pretty nondescript to me, therefore I wasn't too bothered when some of them were killed off in the huge action sequence at the end. It's easy to find oneself yawning or looking at their watch throughout the middle of the film, with the obligatory dry dialogue making the it feel longer than it is. we learn little about the members of the seven and the villain Detorro is rarely seen. Also the one factor that sets Ride! apart from the other three movies is the dark revenge plot, but it's quickly forgotten about at the film's halfway mark. The director could have done more with it and transformed the movie into something else entirely. However, the one thing that The Magnificent Seven movies were always er, magnificent at was showcasing a darned amazing action scene. Ride! is no exception as the bullets scream and the bodies fly, particularly during the fantastic climax where we are treated to an explosive shoot-em-up in the desert(which was gloriously chaotic)followed by a cracking shootout in the town's street. Some complimentary blood spatter is even thrown in alongside the explosions and stuntwork to crank the violence up a notch or two. Although these spectacular action scenes do not mask the predictability of the climax....And so The Magnificent seven series ends deservedly with a bang. Just bear with Ride! as it's a lot of fun with a few brilliant action scenes. 9/10
... View MoreThe Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972) ** (out of 4) The fourth and final film in the series has Mexican bandits doing more harm so Marshall Chris Adams (Lee Van Cleef) finally agrees to go after them as well as trying to serve some of his own personal justice. Along with the help of six other criminals, Adams sets out to protect the people and get his job done at all costs. THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN RIDES! doesn't really feel like any of the three previous films and in fact I'd say it comes off more like a rip-off of THE DIRTY DOZEN than anything else. The film starts off pretty good but I think it quickly falls apart once our center story takes front stage. The first portion of the film deals with a lot of morality as the Marshall has a man behind bars but Adams' girlfriend and the guilty man's mother talk him into giving the kid a second chance. This turns out to be the wrong move and I thought this portion of the film contained some nice drama and a story that really dragged you in. Once the "magnificent seven" stuff started it just seemed like we've been here and done that way too often before. I will say that the film at least offers up some pretty good action scenes, although the majority of them are just gunfights. None of them are overly memorable or ground-breaking but they're all entertaining enough. Lee Van Cleef is always dependable and he makes for a good lead here. The rest of the supporting cast, including a young Gary Busey, are good but they still lack something when compared to previous films. THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN RIDE! closed out the series on a weak note but Western fans might want to check it out.
... View MoreThe final chapter of the original series (as there was a short-lived TV series that came out decades later), but despite the recurring Chris character (this time portrayed by the steely Lee Van Cleef) and the Mexican bandits. "The Magnificent Seven Ride!" didn't feel like a magnificent seven film but more a western take on "The Dirty Dozen". Well when it starts it plays on a more personal, if adventurous note (Chris now a town Marshall seeking vengeance on a couple of bank robbers) before settling on the winsome, but safe story mechanics of the previous entries. A village (of women) in need of rescue from Mexican bandits. After chasing one of the bank robbers over the border, he finds himself accidentally getting involved as originally he knocked down the offer from an old friend to help in some shape. "He did my job. I'll do his." A team is hand-picked by Chris this time it's criminals not bounty hunters. The same shtick, but still rather diverting. Arthur Rowe's story moves by quick enough, never becoming overly preachy but held together by some engaging dialogue passages and solid performances (Michael Callan, Luke Askew, Stefanie Powers, Pedro Armendáriz Jr. and Ralph Waite) that share a good rapport on screen. Also some familiar faces (James Sikking, Ed Lauter and Gary Busey) show up. Director George McCowan takes time to set it up with moments of reflection and humour, but there are well pieced shootouts with violence bursts and red sauce going around. The efficient direction stays grounded, even though it had that made for TV back-lot feel. The music score is recycled but still feels at home with the action. "Ride" won't blow you away, but I found it a slightly better effort over the last two instalments; "Return" and "Guns".
... View MoreTaking more of its plot from The Dirty Dozen than from the previous Magnificent Seven movies, The Magnificent Seven Ride! finds Lee Van Cleef in the role of Chris the leader, previously filled by Yul Brynner and George Kennedy.There's a bandit named DeToro (Ron Stein) who apparently took over the role from Rudolfo Acosta mid point in the filming who's a really nasty devil, raping the women of a given place after the men have been killed is an avocation of his. When he rapes and kills Van Cleef's woman, it's time for Van Cleef and writer friend Michael Callan to find five more to make another seven.Good men are hard to find so when you can't find good ones, get bad ones. Which Van Cleef does by going to the nearest prison and getting five specimens, William Lucking, Luke Askew, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., James Sikking, and Ed Lauter. Obviously this part of the plot is completely ripped off from The Dirty Dozen. And Van Cleef does have an interesting way in both insuring his parolees don't desert him and guarantees that the bandit chief will meet him on ground of his own choosing. That's the big surprise of the plot and I won't reveal it.Some surviving women of another town, Stefanie Powers, Mariette Hartley, Allyn Ann McLerie, and Melissa Murphy join up with the Dirty Seven knowing full well, it's either their protection or their open targets any time the bandits are having a booty call. This is the only Magnificent Seven film with any real women participation in it.Still it doesn't quite come up to the standards of that first film. None of the successors do.
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