Westworld (1973)

• Year: 1973
• Released: 21 Nov 1973
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 4 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070909/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/westworld
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/westworld
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: PG
• Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Runtime: 88 min
• Writer: Michael Crichton
• Director: Michael Crichton
• Cast: Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin
• Keywords: survival, future, vacation, android, saloon,

	6.9/10
	77/100
	85% – Critics
	70% – Audience

Westworld Storyline

It’s sometime in the near future. Delos is an amusement park for the wealthy, where guests, for $1,000 a day, can live out their wildest fantasies in one of three resorts: Medieval World (recreating thirteenth century Europe), Roman World (recreating the height of the Roman Empire) or Westworld (recreating the 1880s Wild West). While the guests take on whatever role he or she wants, the resort-supplied “actors” filling in that world are all robots designed to be realistic to the actual beings, they programmed to fulfill the pleasures of the guest, whether that be as a friend, very good friend, or foe, with guests guaranteed that “nothing can go wrong” in that no harm can come to themselves, anyone else or the robots, on which routine servicing is conducted to rise again to fulfill the same or different role. Escaping the realities of a divorce, Peter Martin is a first time guest at Westworld with his friend, John Blane, a second time visitor who tries to reassure novice Peter. Slow to embrace the game and role playing aspect of the park, Peter eventually receives the rush he so desired when he “kills” a dark clad adversary at a saloon, that dark clad figure who he discovers is assigned his enemy in encountering him again. During Peter and John’s stay, the technicians find that some robot malfunctions are occurring, the effects to the guests minor in nature, with John the victim of one of the more serious offenses. However, those minor incidents turn into major ones where the robots begin to malfunction to the point of taking control, with the dark clad gunslinger, equipped with some of the more high tech sensory mechanisms, after Peter to duel to the death.

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The Vacation of the Future Today

In a near future, the Delos Company offers the vacation of the future in the present days in the amusement parks Medievalworld, Romanworld and Westworld for U$ 1,000.00 per day. The vacationers can feel in the Middle Age or in the Roman Empire or in the Wild West and have joust, sex, duel against gunslinger and whatever he or she wants interacting with robots.

Peter Martin (Richard Benjamin) and John Blane (James Brolin) travel in the hovercraft to Westworld and sooner Peter duels against a Gunslinger (Yul Brynner). However, when there is a malfunctioning of the machinery, the robots get out of control jeopardizing the guests.

“Westworld” is a very successful sci-fi of my generation and a sort of grandfather of other robots films, such as “The Stepford Wives”, “Blade Runner” and mainly “The Terminator”. There is a scene in this last franchise that is an updated rip-off of Yul Brynner’s character chasing Peter.

The story has flaws, but is engaging and suspenseful, holding the attention until the very last scene. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): “Westworld – Onde Ninguém Tem Alma” (“Westworld – Where No One Has Soul”)

Note: On 20 January 2018, I saw this film again.

Note: On 05 March 2021, I saw this film again.

It seems to have lost nothing over time.

I saw “Westworld” long ago…back in the 1970s soon after it debuted. Tonight, I saw it again and was surprised that the film holds up so well…particularly the technology. It’s well worth seeing and still remains a potent tale of technology run amok.

When the story begins, you learn that the Delos Amusement Park has opened and is considered the ultimate in adult entertainment. Folks can go to one of three parks within Delos….Western World, Roman World and Medieval World. In each, it’s as if you are back in time….and you can do almost anything you’d like because the residents are all robots…robots that look 100% real and alive. This is great…but when some sort of computer virus strikes, soon all the safety protocols are gone…and guests are at the mercy of murderous technology.

The film cost a paltry $1,000,000 to make and writer/director Michael Crichton seemed to make the most of it. The film looks great and the story is fascinating. Even with a host of B-list actors (Richard Benjamin, James Brolin and Dick Van Patten) and Yul Brynner, it’s an efffective and entertaining yarn.

By the way, Brynner gets top billing even though he barely speaks at all in the film. he must have had a really, really good agent.

For $1000.00 A Day

You can see the roots both in the plot and the special effects in Michael Crichton’s Westworld that can later be found in the incredibly popular Jurassic Park series.

Like Jurassic Park the protagonists of Westworld are a pair of wealthy American yuppies who are going to a futuristic vacation resort. The place is called Delos and like Disneyland with its separate theme parks of Fantasyland, Adventureland, Frontierland, and the World of Tomorrow, Delos has three different resort type places to visit, Romanworld, Medievalworld and Westworld.

Our two intrepids have chosen the Westworld experience. They get to mix and mingle in an old west frontier town, or at least a Hollywood type version of same and get the feel of western life. Included are gunfights and bar brawls such as you see in any good Hollywood western. This is what Richard Benjamin and James Brolin have chosen for themselves.

For reasons unexplained in the story, the whole thing breaks down in all three theme worlds and in the case of Westworld, a very nasty gunslinger robot has shaken loose from his programming and is on the hunt for human targets. Will man with all of his weaknesses defeat an apparently indestructible machine?

You can also see some of the themes in the later Terminator films that Arnold Schwarzneggar popularized. Here the relentless hunter is played by Yul Brynner in the familiar black western garb that he made popular in The Magnificent Seven.

The VHS copy of Westworld advertises itself as the very first use of computer graphics. If that’s the case this is one unique experience for that reason alone and should not be missed.