Z-View: “Westworld”

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Ed Neumeier recently introduced Westworld   at the Trailers from Hell site and it reminded me how much I love that movie.

Spoilers lurk below…

Man, I was the right age to love Westworld  when I saw it in a theater when it premiered in 1973.  I loved the concept of a Disney-like park where adults could vacation and live out their fantasies.  Heck, who wouldn’t?  Maybe any age is the right age for that.

Yul Brynner was on-point as the Cowboy killing machine.  James Brolin was the perfect movie-star-leading-man who would save his nerdy buddy [played by Richard Benajmin] and the day.  So when Brolin was gunned down by the gunslinging Brynner and Benjamin was left to make it out on his own, I was shocked.  And hooked.

Westworld  Rating: 4 out of 5