The Magnificent Seven (Collector's Edition)

The mark of a great movie is whether you can keep watching it year after year and not get bored. This is one such movie. I can't count how many times I've seen it, but it still keeps me enthralled. Outside the Dollars Trilogy, this has to one of the greatest westerns ever made. Besides the stellar cast, great story, and iconic soundtrack, there is the understated acting and minimal dialogue that gives the movie an Oriental feel. Indeed, 'The Magnificent Seven' is based on Akira Kurosawa's classic 1954 epic samurai action film 'The Seven Samurai'. Steve McQueen, who plays Vin, is an expert in the art of understatement, relying on a glance, a snap of the fingers, or a condensed piece of dialogue to convey much more than what is said. (Steve McQueen's first wife, Neile Adams, was born in Manila, Philippines, and later moved to the US with her family). Much of this understatement owes a lot to John Sturges who directed 'The Magnificent Seven' (1960) and would later direct many of the same actors in 'The Great Escape' (1963). Sturges generally avoided unnecessary camera movements or flashy techniques that would distract from the story and its characters. What's amazing about the seven main characters in 'The Magnificent Seven' is that each character is unique and by the end of the movie we feel that we know them all quite well. The death of Bernardo (Charles Bronson) and Britt (James Coburn) are particularly poignant and will have you reaching for the tissue box. Interestingly, Kurosawa, a director not easily impressed, raved about 'The Magnificent Seven' and even sent Sturges a ceremonial sword as a gift. This gesture speaks volumes and should tell you how great this film really is. All I can say is just watch it. The runtime of 128 minutes will pass in a heartbeat.

My husband's favorite

1 of best films ever made in my opinion

I only spotted that this disc was coming from the USA after I had ordered it, so I was worried that it wouldn't play on my 4K blu-ray player. But luckily it was fine! I was worried about this because I bought the 4K version of A Hard Days Night some time back and my player refused to play it - it complained about the wrong region. But no problem this time!The film is excellent. Although it is a restoration, there is still some grain visible and the sound, of course, is very basic.A classic film.

The Magnificent Seven looks very much like film on UHD, only available in the United States at the time of this review, it’s film like, very organic, I was most pleased by what I saw, colours looked good, accurate to my eyes, the HDR was subtle and you have a choice of sound mixes, the original mono in 2 channel, a stereo 2 channel mix that widens the soundstage a little and a 5.1 mix that adds a little more, I think the 5.1 mix is lacking high frequency sounds, the 2 channel stereo mix sounded better to me, if you are a purist go for the original mono mix.This film has a very nice audio commentary featuring some of the stars of the film, I enjoyed listening to their anecdotes about the making of the movie, it had some additional features too including an interesting making of documentary.Five stars for the film, five stars for the video, three stars for the audio due to high frequency filtering, overall I give the entire product four stars, I am very glad I bought it.

gets me every time what happens to Bernardo

The magnificent seven is a classic western great on 4k fantastic picture and sound the cast is brilliant well produced and directed they can’t make these like this anymore quick delivery very pleased well done Amazon

Classic western