Westworld [1973] (REGION 1) (NTSC)


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Amazon.co.uk Review

Welcome to Delos, the high-tech Disneyland for adults that Michael Crichton created for Westworld, a nifty science fiction thriller from 1973 that also marked the popular novelist's feature-film directorial debut. The movie is so named because the vacationing buddies who travel to Delos (James Brolin, Richard Benjamin) choose Westworld as their destination (the other choices being Roman World and Medieval World), where they are free to indulge their movie-inspired fantasies of the Wild West). The place is populated by perfectly humanlike robots programmed and monitored to cater to every guest's fancy, from brothel beauties to black-hatted gunslingers (such as the villain played by Yul Brynner). But fun turns into abject horror when the robots--particularly Brynner's villain--begin to malfunction and Delos turns into an amusement park that's anything but amusing. Westworld has moments of camp and the look of a low-budget back-lot production, but two decades before Crichton revamped his idea to create Jurassic Park, this movie made the most of its interesting and exciting premise. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com



One of those films that simply delivers
Review date: 2008-03-07 Rating: 10 out of 10

If you have somehow missed watching this early template for Jurassic Park, and you somehow managed to miss Jurassic Park as well, then you'll be in for a treat if you watch this movie. It's not complicated, it's not even very fancy looking, considering the idea and the setting, but it is pure filmic excellence, with the novellist taking the directoral helm here very effectively. He does exactly the right thing in letting the story just unfold, until it becomes a simple tale of one man versus one machine. It is pure cinema and a very filmic experience, as acting and dialogue take a back seat to narrative, conflict, and resolution. It is cinema stripped down to its real essentials and is absolutely smashing.


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Yul never be the same
Review date: 2005-09-25 Rating: 8 out of 10

Theme parks get more sophisticated. Now instead of faking it with actors, the people at Delos have come up with the ultimate getaway; they have created several theme parks of which one is called "Westworld" and use robots instead. They can take real bullets and be repaired. As a side interest they also have other realistic body parts.

To this theme park comes Peter Martin (Richard Benjamin) for a little R&R. At first he is a little shy then he actually gets into things. Everyone is having a great time.

Unknown to the guests Delos is experiencing an anomaly with its system. It seems that in spite off all the fail safes a guest gets shot. Then everything snowballs out of control. The most out of controlest is a robot gun slinger that looks an awful lot like Yul Brynner.

You feel that you are there. So what can you do?

Robots go haywire in futuristic theme park
Review date: 2000-12-15 Rating: 8 out of 10

Michael Crichton, in his directorial debut, delivers an entertaining movie in this story of two businessmen, Richard Benjamin and James Brolin, who decide to go on vacation to the futuristic (and ridiculously expensive)Delos resort. Out of the three possible destinations (westworld, roman world and medieval world), they opt for westworld. The difference from normal holidays is that, apart from the paying guests, all the inhabitants are high tech robots. The variety of robots, from bar tenders to prostitutes, perform every function required of them by the guests. all goes well until the wiring inside robot gunslinger Yul Brynner goes wrong. Soon all the robots are on the rampage, as one by one all the guests are killed, until only Benjamin remains, setting the scene for a suspense packed show down with Brynner. The acting is good enough, but as expected Brynner steals the show as the emotionless killer. Worth watching not just for western fans, but for all action enthusiasts.


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Actor(s):
Norman Bartold
Yul Brynner
Alan Oppenheimer
Richard Benjamin
James Brolin

Director(s):

Recording label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
EAN: 9780790744261
Binding: DVD
ISBN: 0790744260
Number of items: 1
Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC,
Release date: 2000-08-22
Universal product code (UPC): 012569506725
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Region code: 1
Running time: 89 minutes
Theatrical release date: 1973-11-21
Language: English (Original Language)
Language: French (Original Language)
Language: Spanish (Original Language)

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