GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Claysaba Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

RNMorton In this film written and directed by Michael Crichton, Benjamin and Brolin find themselves traveling to a futuristic resort where all your dreams can come true. The three available worlds, Medieval World, Roman World, and West World, all come with robots acting out their roles among the guests. One is never absolutely sure who is what, but that changes when the robots begin to misbehave. The first half of this movie is as good as light drama gets out there, with Brolin the shameless cowboy and Benjamin the neurotic trying to come to terms with his new unlimited environment. Yul Brynner shows up and picks fights with the boys, but they just blow him away Wild West style. Then things start going a little haywire. As I said, the first part is great when the boys are taking full advantage of their liberties, as things go south the movie remains watchable but somewhat less enjoyable. Worth it all for the first half.

a_chinn Michael Crichton wrote and directed this classic 1970s tale of a theme park gone awry about 20 years before he went back to that same well for "Jurassic Park." In this film an enormous theme park has been created the recreates an old west setting populated entirely by robots where visitors can realistically and safely play out their cowboy fantasies (there's also a Roman themed world and and a medieval themed world). Richard Benjamin and James Brolin play two visitors to Westworld who are looking forward to strapping on sixguns, taking on robot gunslingers, and other old west clichés. Things begin to go wrong when some of the robots start to ignore their programming, which at first is damsels rebuffing the male guests and eventually becomes robot villains trying to kill the guests. Benjamin is well cast as the dopey visitor playing cowboy like a 10-year old, who instead finds himself unexpectedly fighting for his life, but casting Yul Brynner as the central robotic gunslinger villain is brilliant. Brynner donning a black hat nicely recalls his iconic role as Chris in "The Magnificent Seven." A main weaknesses of the film is the cutaway scenes to the Roman and medieval worlds, which are not all that interesting and seem only to exist to widen the theme park world, which wasn't really necessary, and to hint that something is going awry, which could easily have been done within the old west setting. Another weakness of the film is that it's not all that suspenseful or exciting, which is surprising since Crichton got much better at suspense with "The Great Train Robbery" and "Runaway," although is nowhere in the same league compared to the suspense in Spielberg's film version of Crichton's "Jurassic Park" (the T-Rex scene when the power first goes out in the park is an under-appreciated modern masterpiece of suspense), though in all fairness, few directors compare to Spielberg when it comes to suspense. Despite those deficiencies, Westworld's central premise of a massive interactive theme park is irresistible and that alone is enough to carry the film. When you top that off with casting Yul Brynner, there's no way you can't like this film. Oh, and the film also features an awesome 1970s style full-body flame stunt, which I really wish TV and films would do more of today (along with more characters getting trapped in quicksand or getting locked in deadly hot saunas).

one-nine-eighty What a film! Michael Chrichton's screenplay adapted into movie format with Yul Brynner playing the role of his life (after "The King and I") with a great supporting cast including Richard Benjamin and James Brolin. A dystopian future. Theme parks are now robotic holiday resorts so real that they'd pass for real. Experiences from visits to fighting gardens in RomanWorld, to exploring the wild American frontier in WestWorld all needs and tastes are catered for here. But what happens when the robots decide they don't want slavery anymore? I have soo many fond memories of watching this as a child with glee. The story of the gunslinger in black hunting guests terrified and excited me so much. After re-watching it every couple of years I still have same enjoyment from this film. Yul Brynner is immaculate as the pre-terminator robot gone bad.Culturally this film asked a lot of valid questions prevalent at the time as mankind was integrating more and more with technology while being on the doorstep to various conflicts globally. Like some of the themes, some of the visuals are now very dated but don't forget, this is pre-CGI mainstream, this is the 1970's. Despite that this is and remains one of my favorite films and it's highly recommended. It has spawned a sequel ("FutureWorld") and it's own TV series. Enjoy!

david-sarkies I have to admit that I love this movie, but then again you have probably already worked that out because of the rating that I gave it. However, one of the reasons that I love it is that while the film is so simple, it is effective, and it also has the cool, 1970s feel about it. In fact I am almost inclined to consider it a low budget movie, though it was probably a big budget film at the time. While they it did spawn some sequels, and a remake, it was until much more recently that somebody has taken Crichton's original idea and given it a revamp (though I have to admit that Crichton himself took the idea and got rid of the robots and added dinosaurs).As I mentioned, the plot is rather simple, and in fact they spend the first half of the movie setting it up. The film is about a theme park where they relive the past, either in the wild west, the medieval times, or Ancient Rome. The thing that sets this theme park apart from others is that they use robots, and the robots are so real that they look human. In fact these robots are so realistic that you can actually have sex with them, or you can shoot them. The problem is that the system suddenly breaks down and the robots start going around killing everybody.The film introduces Yul Brynner as the man (or robot) in black, actually the gunslinger, and suddenly it starts to seem that after their first gun fight, Brynner decides to go and get a bit of revenge. Thus, when all of the robots start going haywire, Yul Byrnner tracks down the protagonist, who killed him the day before, and kills his mate in a showdown in the main street. He then proceeds to chase the other guest across the park. In fact the second half of the film is simply Yul Bryner chasing our protagonist across the park, and for some reason I just love that part. Okay, Brynner doesn't say all that much, but then again he really doesn't need to – he is menacing, dangerous, and you really don't want to get caught by him. It is certainly much different from his role in The King and I.Okay, the film is simple, but in many cases a simple film is an entertaining film. Sure, it does look at the whole idea of our reliance on technology, and the idea that the more reliant we become on technology, the worse it becomes when technology decides to turn on us. Sure, we have this whole idea of Asimov's laws of robots, however the reality is that we haven't actually installed these laws into them. There is also the problem that there may come to a point when we lose control of our robots that the master off switch simply won't work. However, that is all just theorising because in the end the main reason I love this film is because half of it is basically this guy running away from Yul Brynner.