Artist Westworld
High-concept novelist Michael Crichton dabbled in genre filmmaking for a time in the ’70s, and in 1973, he wrote and directed Westworld, a dry run for some of the gimmicks and ideas he’d later bring to his blockbuster book Jurassic Park. James Brolin and Richard Benjamin play wealthy good-timers who vacation at a high-tech amusement park where the guests play at shootouts with “Wild West” robots. When the robots begin to go haywire, Brolin and Benjamin are hunted by a dead-eyed mechanical marksman, played by Yul Brynner. Westworldsubmerges Crichton’s pop-philosophical musings on the arrogance of the idle rich, letting taut suspense and gratuitous spine-tingling take precedence over moralizing.
Updated 10/28/2009
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