Boobirt Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Tockinit not horrible nor great

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Uriah43 "Jim MacCay" (Ralph Waite) is an American who takes a job as a marshal for a small Mexican town and rides across the border to ask a colleague of his named "Chris" (Lee Van Cleef) to come and help him hold off a large group of Mexican bandits that are expected to raid the town soon. At first he declines the offer but when his wife "Arrila" (Mariette Hartley) is kidnapped, raped and then killed by three young thugs he rides out after them. After killing two of them he discovers that the third has joined the bandits and for that reason he decides to take up the cause with a vengeance. Unfortunately, the only men he can get to assist him are vicious outlaws themselves—and a couple would be more than willing to desert him if the time is right. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was a decent Western all things considered. Admittedly, it isn't nearly as good as the original but it was still somewhat entertaining and I have rated it accordingly. Average.

lost-in-limbo The final chapter of the original series (as there was a short-lived TV series that came out decades later), but despite the recurring Chris character (this time portrayed by the steely Lee Van Cleef) and the Mexican bandits. "The Magnificent Seven Ride!" didn't feel like a magnificent seven film but more a western take on "The Dirty Dozen". Well when it starts it plays on a more personal, if adventurous note (Chris now a town Marshall seeking vengeance on a couple of bank robbers) before settling on the winsome, but safe story mechanics of the previous entries. A village (of women) in need of rescue from Mexican bandits. After chasing one of the bank robbers over the border, he finds himself accidentally getting involved as originally he knocked down the offer from an old friend to help in some shape. "He did my job. I'll do his." A team is hand-picked by Chris… this time it's criminals not bounty hunters. The same shtick, but still rather diverting. Arthur Rowe's story moves by quick enough, never becoming overly preachy but held together by some engaging dialogue passages and solid performances (Michael Callan, Luke Askew, Stefanie Powers, Pedro Armendáriz Jr. and Ralph Waite) that share a good rapport on screen. Also some familiar faces (James Sikking, Ed Lauter and Gary Busey) show up. Director George McCowan takes time to set it up with moments of reflection and humour, but there are well pieced shootouts with violence bursts and red sauce going around. The efficient direction stays grounded, even though it had that made for TV back-lot feel. The music score is recycled but still feels at home with the action. "Ride" won't blow you away, but I found it a slightly better effort over the last two instalments; "Return" and "Guns".

bkoganbing Taking more of its plot from The Dirty Dozen than from the previous Magnificent Seven movies, The Magnificent Seven Ride! finds Lee Van Cleef in the role of Chris the leader, previously filled by Yul Brynner and George Kennedy.There's a bandit named DeToro (Ron Stein) who apparently took over the role from Rudolfo Acosta mid point in the filming who's a really nasty devil, raping the women of a given place after the men have been killed is an avocation of his. When he rapes and kills Van Cleef's woman, it's time for Van Cleef and writer friend Michael Callan to find five more to make another seven.Good men are hard to find so when you can't find good ones, get bad ones. Which Van Cleef does by going to the nearest prison and getting five specimens, William Lucking, Luke Askew, Pedro Armendariz, Jr., James Sikking, and Ed Lauter. Obviously this part of the plot is completely ripped off from The Dirty Dozen. And Van Cleef does have an interesting way in both insuring his parolees don't desert him and guarantees that the bandit chief will meet him on ground of his own choosing. That's the big surprise of the plot and I won't reveal it.Some surviving women of another town, Stefanie Powers, Mariette Hartley, Allyn Ann McLerie, and Melissa Murphy join up with the Dirty Seven knowing full well, it's either their protection or their open targets any time the bandits are having a booty call. This is the only Magnificent Seven film with any real women participation in it.Still it doesn't quite come up to the standards of that first film. None of the successors do.

Poseidon-3 A perfect example of the exploitation of a name (i.e. - "The Magnificent Seven") in order to put butts in theatre seats, this dire THIRD sequel to the original film has little or no connection to it at all. Van Cleef (taking over a role made famous by Yul Brynner and then after that played by George Kennedy) is a newly-married sheriff of a small western town. His wife (Hartley) sympathizes with a young robber who is about to be transferred to Tuscon Prison. When, against his better judgement, he releases the punk, the robber and his two pals rob again and kidnap Hartley. Van Cleef and his recently-acquired biographer Callan ride off to rescue her, but find that impossible. Meanwhile, a crazed Mexican bandit (Stein) is terrorizing the area and wipes out all but 17 women and some children in a small village. Van Cleef decides to defend the village against Stein, who is about to return, and recruits five hardened criminals from Tuscon Prison to aid Callan and him, thus another "Seven" is formed. Van Cleef and company, with the aid of the women, fortify the village and plan to wipe out Stein and his 50 men when they come back. Within the preparations, Van Cleef begins to fall for Powers and Callan takes a shine to Murphy as the other men also establish relationships with their respective aides. Van Cleef isn't bad in the film and ably represents a sure-handed gunslinger and leader. Callan has little or no acting pressure placed on him in his rather lifeless role. The remaining members of the seven are familiar TV and movie faces and, considering it takes a very long time for them to team up, not very much of them is shown below the surface attributes. Waite, of "The Waltons", has a brief role as a friend of Van Cleef's. Hartley (who had co-starred with Van Cleef previously in "Barquero") only appears briefly and, while she gives a sensitive portrayal, she has very little to work with. Powers, decked out in thoroughly inappropriate hair (as are all the women of the village including one with a bob and one with a long greyish-blonde fright wig), has a tough row to hoe here. The idiotic script asks her, as a very recent widow and the victim of repeated rape, to instantly fall for Van Cleef! The romantic aspects of the film are heavily misguided as all the women have been brutalized, used and assaulted and yet make goo-goo eyes at the seven men who've come to rescue them! It's repulsive and trashy to have the female cast represented this way. Almost reprehensible. Other noted cast members include Busey, in an early role as one of the robber's associates and Conwell, who spent 24 years on "The Young and the Restless" as one of the widows. One major failing of the film is it's lack of a decent villain. The marauding bandit is referred to repeatedly as a vicious, menacing and mad killer, yet when he arrives, he's played by stuntman and bit player Stein! The entire film, as exciting as its concept sounds, has a pall over it. The legendary Elmer Bernstein theme music is trucked out again, but this time it has a muted, anemic, generic sound. The scenery is dull, the settings are bland and the cinematography is drab and uncaptivating. In its favor are some lively action scenes including an attack on a hacienda and the pivotal finale, but, unfortunately, too often it's a bleak, uninteresting, amateurish and tacky, to the point of being offensive, affair.