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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]
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This remake of many remakes features a rerecording of the original Elmer Bernstein score, but no one in the cast has the magnetism to live up to that famous music, which comes with a set of expectations that asks a lot of the actors as well as of the script.
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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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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]
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Looks more like a tired old episode of "Wagon Train." [1 Jan 1998]
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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]
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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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