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Name: Westworld
Released: 1973-11-21
Cast: Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Norman Bartold, Alan Oppenheimer

Westworld

PG-13
1h 28m
1973

84%

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Welcome to the adult playground designed to cater to any fantasy, where life-like robots are programmed for romance ... violence ... anything--a place called Westworld. Peter Martin (Richard Benjamin) and John Blane (James Brolin) come for a vacation in this simulated Wild West, complete with dance hall girls, free-for-all bar fights and shoot-outs--all safe and harmless. But when Blane dies after being shot by a robot (Academy Award winner Yul Brenner), Martin discovers that something has gone very wrong: The human operators are all dead, and the robots are now killing the guests in this science fiction thriller written and directed by Michael Crichton ("ER," Jurassic Park).

Director:

Michael Crichton

Producer:

Paul N. Lazarus, Michael Rachmil

Writer:

Michael Crichton

Cast:

Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin, Norman Bartold, Alan Oppenheimer, Victoria Shaw, Dick Van Patten, Linda Gaye Scott, Steve Franken, Michael T. Mikler, Terry Wilson, Majel Barrett

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

84%

Critics Consensus: Yul Brynner gives a memorable performance as a robotic cowboy in this amusing sci-fi/western hybrid.

Reviews

Observer (UK)

Russell Davies

In the closing minutes, Brynner's presence comes to inspire the classic movie monster mixture of dread and pathos, while his destructive urge sounds the film's warning against unrestrained technology.

Micheal Crichton's Westworld is a moderately entertaining sci-fi film; its major disadvantage is that Crichton's ideas is -- potentially -- too ingenious for what he was able to do.

Though at times the potential is undercooked, the western meets SF peril provides enough food for thought.

...a missed opportunity that generally feels as though it should be much, much better.

Sometimes fantasy and science fiction films provide more telling portraits of the times in which they were created than their realist counterparts do.

March 13, 2021

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