Reviewed by claudio_carvalho 7 / 10 The Vacation of the Future Today It's a great film that should appeal to a wide variety of people, so long as they are able to enjoy movies made before CGI. His script is smart with nice bits of humor throughout. I think it's his best work as a director, although I hold a special place in my heart for Runaway. This was Crichton's first theatrical directorial effort (he directed a TV movie prior to this). I can't say enough good things about Fred Karlin's effective score. The sets and special effects are terrific, particularly when you consider this was made for $1.25 million (with half of that going to pay the cast and crew). From that point on the pace never slows down and it becomes an exciting cat-and-mouse chase with Brynner hunting Benjamin. It's an hour in before the killing starts. The movie takes its time setting things up and building the suspense, showing one small malfunction at a time. But it's Yul Brynner, as the black-clad gunfighter out to kill Benjamin, that steals the show with his commanding screen presence. Dick Van Patten and Alan Oppenehimer are good in supporting roles. Richard Benjamin does a great job as the unlikely hero, a newly-divorced and somewhat nerdy man brought to the park by his macho friend James Brolin. But this fantasy world turns into a nightmare when the robots malfunction and start killing the tourists! You want to bang an attractive prostitute or wench, have right at it. You want to shoot it out with a gunslinger, you can. You want to have a sword fight with a knight, you can. Each of these worlds is inhabited by androids who look, talk, and act like real people. Reviewed by utgard14 8 / 10 Westworld.Where nothing can possibly go worng!Ĭlassic sci-fi thriller, written and directed by Michael Crichton, about a futuristic amusement park called Delos where people can role play in fantasy "worlds" based on the Old West, the Roman Empire, and Medieval Europe.
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