Hollywood loves its remakes, and even remakes of remakes, as the new version of Ben-Hur proved this year. Antoine Fuqua reaches back almost as long ago ( fifty-six years) to bring back The Magnificent Seven, itself a remake of Akiro Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. Fuqua and star Denzel Washington succeed in making a fun popcorn Western, but one that more closely resembles a cross between Pale Rider and Open Rangethan its namesake.
