Starring: Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Lee Byung-hun, Manuel Garcia Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Peter Sarsgaard, Haley Bennett, Matt Bomer, Luke Grimes, Cam Gigandet
OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆
Story:
Action western remake directed by Antoine Fuqua. The Magnificent Seven (2016) is set in the town of Rose Creek which is under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard). The desperate townspeople employ protection from seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers and hired guns, Sam Chisolm (Denzel Washington), Josh Farraday (Chris Pratt), Goodnight Robicheaux (Ethan Hawke), Jack Horne (Vincent D’Onofrio), Billy Rocks (Byung-Hun Lee), Vasquez (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), and Red Harvest (Martin Sensmeier). As they prepare the town for the violent showdown that they know is coming, these seven mercenaries find themselves fighting for more than money.
Best Quotes
Farmer: I have a need of a man with your qualification.
Sam Chisolm: I’m not for sale. I’m a duly sworn warrant officer.
Emma Cullen: We need your help. We’re decent people being driven from our homes, slaughtered in cold blood.
Emma Cullen: That man murdered my husband. He will take everything we have.
Sam Chisolm: So you seek revenge.
Emma Cullen: I seek righteousness, but I’ll take revenge.
Josh Faraday: Our paths cross again. To what do I owe the pleasure?
Sam Chisolm: Took a job. Looking for some men to join me.
Josh Faraay: Is there money in it?
Josh Faraday: [as Emma tosses him a bag of coins] And who’s she?
Sam Chisolm: Joan of Arc.
Emma Cullen: My name’s Emma Cullen. And this is my associate, Teddy Q.
Josh Faraday: Well, I do have an affinity for shiny things. Is it difficult?
Sam Chisolm: Impossible.
Josh Farraday: How many you got so far?
Sam Chisolm: You and me.
Emma Cullen: Don’t be afraid. I have assembled these men and offered fair pay.
Rose Creek Barber: Who picked you to deal on our behalf?
Emma Cullen: Seems I was the only one with balls enough to do so. So I did.
Josh Farraday: Well allow me to show you something.
Josh Farraday: What could go wrong?
Sam Chisolm: Man carries a gun he tends to use it.
Josh Farraday: Dan, are you dead?
Josh Farraday: [as the man drops down dead] Pity, I had just ordered drink from that man.
Josh Farraday: Goddang, I’m good.
Josh Farraday: Good lord.
Sam Chisolm: That’s right.
Bartholomew Bogue: I want something, I take it.
Bartholomew Bogue: Chisolm. Do I know that name?
Sam Chisolm: You should know it from your obituary.
Josh Farraday: I believe that bear’s wearing people’s clothes.
Josh Farraday: What a bunch of misfits we are.
Josh Farraday: Do you know how to shoot that thing?
Sam Chisolm: I’m good.
Josh Farraday: So am I.
Vasquez: He’s local, my friend.
Josh Farraday: Oh, good. We got a Mexican.
Goodnight Robicheaux: I sense we are bonding.
Josh Farraday: We got seven, he’s got an army. And they’ll be murdered by the world’s greatest lover.
Emma Cullen: Why are you here fighting someone else’s fight?
Sam Chisolm: These people deserve their lives back.
Goodnight Robicheaux: [to Chisolm] Just makes who we’re fighting the battle in front of us not the battle behind.
Sam Chisolm: Every man got the right to choose where he dies.
Vasquez: We have nowhere else to go, so.
Sam Chisolm: What’s the plan?
Josh Farraday: I’ve always wanted to blow something up.
Sam Chisolm: That’s not a plan.
Sam Chisolm: How did we do?
Josh Farraday: I think we killed them all.
Bogue’s Thug: Quite a batch of strays.
Sam Chisolm: You tell your boss if he wants his town, come see me.
Goodnight Robicheaux: This is not going to end well.
Josh Farraday: I’ve always wanted to blow something up.
Bartholomew Bogue: How many men you said?
Josh Farraday: I suppose that undertaker’s going to take some business out of this deal.
Sam Chisolm: What we lost in the fire, we found in the ashes.
Preacher: The spirit is willing, but we are not killers.
Sam Chisolm: No one is, until they’re looking down the barrel of a gun.
Bartholomew Bogue: If God didn’t want them to be sheared, he wouldn’t have made them sheep.
Jack Horne: Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will have no fear!
Emma Cullen: What ever they were in life, here, at the end, each man stood with courage and honor. They fought for the ones who couldn’t fight for themselves, and the died for them too. All to win something that didn’t belong to them. It was magnificent.
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