The War Wagon Full Movie Reviews

Full Movie Reviews

Rating of
3/4

What a Great Guy Night Flick

Looneymanthegreat - wrote on 03/23/2013

Spartacus and The Duke are cowboy’s who team up (uneasily) in order to take down an armored stagecoach armed with a Gatling gun, basically a horse-drawn tank. That may be the greatest Idea for an action movie ever.

The film follows the Seven Samurai template, a group of unlikely hero’s come together to accomplish something, in this case robbing “the war wagon.” It doesn’t have any great characters or any real intellectual complexity, but it does what it want’s to do very well; IE: create an exciting adventure movie starring two of the most Iconic actors of the era.

I really do like the chemistry between Douglas and Wayne. Their alliance is barely existent (Douglas’ character has been hired by the villain to kill Wayne, and he reminds of it constantly.) That …

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