Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven had its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, with the first wave of critical reviews generally saying “Yeah, it’s all right.”
In a review that superbly uses the line “Donald Trump better hope this movie doesn’t catch on,” IndieWire calls the film “a story of simple pleasures, and it gets the little things right.”
On a similar political line, Time Out New York adds “it feels like an unambiguously fond farewell to the Obama years… a vehicle for wall-to-wall action, including one devastating sequence with a hand-cranked Gatling gun that calls to mind Sam Peckinpah’s gory The Wild Bunch.”
But Empire reckons it doesn’t stack up to the original The Magnificent Seven or the original source Seven Samurai, suggesting the new film is “lacking the froth and fun of the former, and the humanist joys of the latter… has little fresh to say about the genre it homages and a mirthless way of saying it.”
‘The Magnificent Seven’ is in cinemas 29th September
