Modern Western Film

Bringing together a team is never easy, just ask Danny Ocean, Nick Fury or Dominic Toretto. But in the hands of the right filmmaker a story of highly skilled individuals joining forces for a dangerous mission can be a highly entertaining experience. The Glorious Seven aims to be such a film and writer-director, Harald Franklin wrangles the team for a pulse-pounding visual spectacle that may just be worthy of the title glorious. As much as I love spending time with movies, I haven’t seen Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai or it’s American counterpart The Magnificent Seven since film class in college. I did catch the Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt remake a few years back and if I can show my hand a bit, Franklin’s film is a much better looking picture than Antoine Fuqua’s wild west effort. But is The Glorious Seven a better movie overall? Plot: Ex-military commander David Guerra is hired by shady millionaire Anthony Levin to rescue his wife Valentina who was kidnapped by Javier Martinez,