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Jun 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Biehn's terse, tightly coiled performance and stirring music from Elmer Bernstein's original 1960 score enhance the "Magnificent" mystique. [2 Jan 1998]
Jun 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
If not exactly magnificent, it's still a well-executed traditional western. [31 Dec 1997]
Jun 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
The Magnificent Seven is sort of an odd mixture of 1990s political correctness and every cliche that's ever been played out in Western movies and TV shows. But, odder still, it all comes together in a rather enjoyable way. [2 Jan 1998]
Jun 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Seven features an entertaining ensemble, a tongue-in-check approach and an attractive visual style that alternates between sweeping vistas and ultra-tight closeups. The sap and the male-bonding is sometimes a bit thick, but overall Seven is a clever update of an old TV genre - and a welcome break from TV's current glut of cops and docs. [2 Jan 1998]
Jun 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
The debut is cinematically beautiful, the cast is top-notch, the story is compelling, the characters distinct, the music stirring. The question is, why now? [30 Dec 1997]
Jun 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Dozens of off-the-shelf cowboy cliches ... make this brand-new film seem so, so old. [3 Jan 1998]
Jun 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Magnificent Seve" can't hold a candle to its cinematic predecessor, or to most of the old TV classics like Gunsmoke. But in a world where all the cowboys rode off into the sunset decades ago, we'll take a watered-down Western just fine, ma'am. [3 Jan 1998]
Jun 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
A few gun-notches below magnificent. [3 Jan 1998]
Jun 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
While it pales next to the original movie, it is an enjoyable Saturday-matinee-styled Western show with a charismatic cast and the potential for savvy plots reflecting the complications of race and violence in the post-Civil War West. [3 Jan 1998]
Jun 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
There's some nice moments in the premiere and great camaraderie. But it's stock stuff and you would hope for some invention. [31 Dec 1997]
Jun 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Trying to be both sensitive and obstreperous, TV's Seven lacks a sure sense of itself, its audience— or even its history. ... The new Seven would be a lot better if its gang interacted more interestingly—more contentiously—with each other, and if its cast wasn't so uniformly youngish.
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Jun 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Most of the staples are there: the shootouts, flinty stares, purposeful strides through gunpowder smoke, tobacco spitting and rides into the sunset. What's missing is a little credibility. [2 Jan 1998]
Jun 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
An energetic attempt ... What there isn't, unfortunately, is enough character development to make you care about anybody or anything. [1 Jan 1998]
Jun 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Considering the ways it's been scaled down for TV, "The Adequate Seven" or "The Essentially Competent Seven" might have made more accurate titles. [3 Jan 1998]
Jun 6, 2014
Jun 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
The power of the original lay not just in its stylish bravado but in its quiet, reflective moments ... There's little comparable depth in CBS's version. Perhaps the most poignant indication that this Magnificent Seven is not much more than a pale imitation is the inclusion of snippets of Elmer Bernstein's brilliant score from 1960.
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Jun 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
This new "Magnificent Seven" is so far from magnificent, it's almost depressing. ... There's no sense of drama, humor or urgency. [2 Jan 1998]
Jun 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Looks more like a tired old episode of "Wagon Train." [1 Jan 1998]
Jun 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
This low-rent knockoff of the estimable 1960 movie is a sleep--inducing, cliche-choked, rope-a-dopey slowpoke starring a buncha no-names substituting for the likes of Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and James Coburn. We haven't seen markdowns of this magnitude since Sears fire-saled its entire line of Johnny Miller menswear. [3 Jan 1998]
Jun 6, 2014
Season 1 Review:
When you saddle up with CBS' new Magnificent Seven, you're in for trite violence, far-fetched situations, dull characters and saddle sores. [3 Jan 1998]
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