Six year after the black and white Kurosawa movie, the Americans give it a go. The cast is stellar, the production quality is a lot better, the script is trimmed and changed to fit American sensibilities, but the result is quite good. The few additions to the plot, like the confessed vulnerability of Vaughn's character, improve the story - well, most of them. Frankly I think Calvera was foreshadowing when he said no good deed goes unpunished. In Seven Samurai, even if you kind of guessed where people were coming from, there was almost no character development. TM7 (as it would be named if remade today - OK, I am being naughty, I know there was a decently named remake made in 2016, but I haven't seen it) has a lot more character development. Yet the Japanese film still is better in many ways.
A good remake, I found it instructive to watch Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven back to back.
A good remake, I found it instructive to watch Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven back to back.