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Rating: 4.3 / 5.0 (179 votes)

Released: 2013-03-05


Westworld [Blu-ray] by Warner Home Video

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Movie Details

Director
Michael Crichton
Studio
Warner Home Video
Runtime
88
Rated
PG (Parental Guidance)
Binding
Blu-ray

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Description

For $1,000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the theme park called Westworld. They can bust up a bar or bust out of jail, drop in on a brothel or get the drop on a gunslinger. It's all safe: the park's lifelike androids are programmed never to harm the customers. But not all droids are getting with the program. Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Twister) wrote and made his directing debut with this futuristic thriller that heralded moviemaking's future as the first feature to use digitized images. Richard Benjamin and James Brolin portray pals confronted by a simulated reality turned real. And Yul Brynner is their stalking, spur-jangling nemesis. It's man versus machine – in a tomorrow that isn't big enough for the both of them.

Actors

  • Shannon Tweed
  • Sam Hennings
  • Yul Brynner
  • Colleen Coffey
  • Richard Benjamin

Format

  • NTSC
  • Widescreen

Editorial 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. From brothel beauties to black-hatted gunslingers (like the villain played by Yul Brynner), the place is populated by perfectly humanlike robots programmed and monitored to cater to every guest's fancy. But fun turns into abject horror when the robots–particularly Brynner's badman–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 backlot 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

More Details

Binding
Blu-ray
Aspect Ratio
1.77:1
Disks
1

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