Wild Seven

Posted by fetchblog

November 25, 2007

IMDB - 5.0/10

Synopsis

“In this darkly karmic vision of Arizona, a man who breathes nothing but ill will begins a noxious domino effect as quickly as an uncontrollable virus kills. As he exits Arizona State Penn after twenty-one long years, Wilson (Academy Award Nominee Robert Forster) has only one thing on the brain, leveling the score with career criminal, Mackey Willis (Academy Award Nominee Robert Loggia). As eccentric and intuitive as he is vicious, Mackey’s own perfected criminal game will play right into the path Wilson has set for him. With the help of a prison bus driver, Lee Marvin (Richard Roundtree), Wilson acts as a catalyst, putting a plan into action that will bring an untimely end to Mackey Willis. The problem is, no plan is perfect. Meanwhile, an aimless bunch of Arizona twenty-nothings are cooking up a heist that will lead them to the same bank, with different intentions. Skilled at nothing beyond drinking, doing drugs and attending strip clubs, their plan is destined for immediate failure. Heavily armed, without a single identifiable clue, these boys are as blind as they are impulsive. With both plans loosely angled inward, the vengefully mystical presence of the Sonoran landscape will have its way and every solider will fall on his own sword.” Written by Martian

Review

By JUSTIN CHANG

“The elegiac performances of Richard Roundtree and Robert Forster and some nostalgic allusions to classic Western films and TV shows are the only points of interest in the aimless and undercooked revenge drama “Wild Seven.” Predicated on the generation gap between two groups of men planning the same climactic bank robbery, this clumsily executed crime saga offers no thrills, few laughs and lots of incomprehensibly murky style. Commercial future looks as arid as pic’s Arizona-Mexico setting.” “Just released from a 25-year term in Arizona state prison, Wilson (Forster) befriends a fellow ex-inmate with the oater-ific nickname Lee Marvin (Roundtree), whom he enlists in a heist designed to take down Mackey (a scenery-chewing Robert Loggia), the brutish bigot who framed him for murder. Secondary thread stars writer-director James Hausler as Buckley, a young man who, by no coincidence, hatches a similar plot with his four ne’er-do-well friends. Unfolding against a vaguely iconic backdrop of strip clubs, liquor stores and rugged Western terrain, pic rattles off a string of pointless killings, interrupted by color-tinted sky shots that play like excerpts from someone’s peyote high.”

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