Wild Seven

Man-I would just like to say to the director of this film: DON'T LISTEN TO ALL THOSE WHINY CRITICS! I mean, "Matchstick Men" as a recommendation? Please. Listen: this is obviously a young filmmaker and an impressive feat for one of his first movies. The guy had the wherewithal to pull it off and utilize some amazing, overlooked talent. The setting is gorgeous, there are incisive bits of off-color humour, and, despite the comparisons to Tarantino, the writing is pretty original. And so what if something reflects Tarantino? He's one of the greatest and most popular directors of our time! Isn't most art derivative? Tarantino obviously contributed to the culture in which this young director was raised. Give him a break! Frankly (at the LA festival), I was captivated and refreshed by the young talents that are part of this movie.

I really enjoyed this movie! I love the old school actors that were chosen for this movie! Like Richard Roundtree aka the original shaft... can you dig it! I loved him from his 70's role as the hardcore mac daddy and he did a good job in this movie! I also liked Robert Loggia! Heis a pimp! I loved him as Tom Hanks boss in big and his role in independence day.. my favorite movie! I felt that Loggia did a good acting job as well in this movie! He played a great crazy old man! Anyhow.. I felt the director did a good job with the camera angles and his style is very unique and fresh! I would recommend this movie to all!

In Arizona, after twenty-one years in prison, Wilson (Robert Foster) is released at the same time as Lee Marvin (Richard Roundtree) and while driving back home, they have a conversation about their future plans. Lee is absolutely regenerated while Wilson plots revenge against the despicable criminal Mackey (Robert Loggia), who framed him and was the responsible for his conviction. Wilson invites Lee and Mackey to heist a bank and raise money. Meanwhile, a group of young smalltime crooks plan the heist of the same bank to raise money for drugs, booze and women, and the clumsy Connor (Christopher Clark) becomes a serious threat for his friends with his shotgun.

The pretentious and boring "Wild Seven" has the intention to be a cult-movie or at least cool, but the work of the director completely fails. The result is a confused movie that goes nowhere, with awful screenplay and direction where the true intention of the revenge of Wilson is never clearly disclosed; the motivation of the youngsters is also obscure and the characters are terribly developed. In the end, watching this film was a complete waste of time. My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): "Os 7 Selvagens" ("The Wild Seven")

I just picked this up on a whim at the local video rental shop, somewhat because I've had some good luck with indie flicks lately (He Was A Quiet Man, being the most recent). Wild Seven started out promising. Some nice scenery. A just released con, fresh out of prison and looking for revenge on his old partner in crime who set him up for a couple of decades. A group of wannabe bank robber kids. What could go wrong?

The first signal that something was wrong came when the newly released con (Forster) turns out to be about as menacing as a cream puff. The ex-partner (Loggia) is equally non-threatening, despite carrying and constantly displaying a gold plated Desert Eagle.

Flash forward (after some boring pointless setup, some of which made no sense whatsoever) to the (anti-)climactic bank robbery where everyone meets up by accident.

At this point, enough time had been wasted that I had to see if the movie could redeem itself even just a little bit. But no. It wasn't to be.

The movie ends abruptly, as if they ran out of money and/or ideas. In short, a pointless wasted of film. 3 out of 10 is being generous.

ya see this is what happens when you are too influenced by a director's style which is just out of your league. OK we get it, you like Tarantino, nothing wrong with that, but when you quite clearly don't have the writing skill that he has and none of your friends who you cast in the movie bother to tell you your material is sub par, well that's when stinkers like this piece of junk get made into actual movies that waste people's time and money, and when you waste people's time and money then that's when you get people feeling compelled to write and warn everyone that your work is rubbish, well shot rubbish with reasonable sound etc but content wise, annoyingly bad.

What made you rush your ability? Why'd you bite off way more than you could chew, and who green lite this stinker? truth is there is some craft in your movie, but none of it has to do with story or content, which is so overwhelmingly bad and so obviously derivative at a level well below those of the people you emulate that it kinda makes me angry.

what a waste of time. stay well clear.