Review of Westworld (1973) by Jim P — 16 Sep 2008
Critics often say that it's the bad movies that should get remade, not the good ones. Arguably, writer/director Michael Chricton followed this advice many years after Westworld when he penned Jurassic Park, a far better treatment of the same notion of theme-park-gone-way-the-hell-wrong.
Westworld's ultimately tiresome: forty-five minutes of no crazy androids is way too long for James Brolin and Richard Benjamin to gee-whiz their way through hackneyed Western tropes as tourists in a re-creation of the Old West, one of the themed areas of the park.
Pity Yul Brynner, who is forced to robot his way through a painful reminder of his salad days. For Star Trek fans, there's at least Majel Barrett in a cliched if amusing bit part. There's not much for anyone else.
Go watch the dinosaurs again instead.
This review of Westworld (1973) was written by Jim P on 16 Sep 2008.
Westworld has generally received positive reviews.
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