Westworld [Limited Edition]
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Last update: 02-28-2026
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- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 6.73 x 5.31 x 0.51 inches; 3.52 ounces
- Director : Michael Crichton
- Media Format : 4K
- Run time : 1 hour and 28 minutes
- Release date : February 24, 2026
- Actors : Dick Van Patten, James Brolin, Linda Gaye Scott, Victoria Shaw
- Studio : Arrow Video
- ASIN : B0G4F4L44N
- Best Sellers Rank:#18 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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- Lou ColeWhere Nothing Can Go Wrong click Go Wrong click Go Wrong"West World" is a great movie. West World is one of three resorts, the others being Roman World and Medieval World.
These three resorts are run by a company named DELOS. It costs guests $1,000 a day to stay at the resort area they choose.
The resorts ar areas each built like replicas of the time period the resort is named for.
The movie was made by MGM. Old sets on the MGM lot that were used in other movies were used in "West World."
The resorts are populated by human looking and human acting robots programed and dressed to behave like someone from the particular time period the resort is named for. They even have robots who bleed when they are killed for example in a gun fight in West World. The way you can tell who is a robot is to look at heir hands. DELOS has not yet perfected the hands of the robots.
The guests who stay at these resorts can play and act out their fantasies of being and living in the time period the resort area is built to ressemble and be like.
Upon arrival, the guests are outfited by DELOS with clothes that are made to ressemble the time period of the resort they have chosen to go to.
The robots are built and programmed to perform a certain function in having and helping the guests to act out their fantasies.
They even have robots built and programmed to have sex.
The stars Richard Benjamin as a lawyer who has gone through a divorce and his friend played by James Brolin who has been to West World before has talked Richard Benjamin into going to West World with him believing that it wil help his friend to get over the divorce or at least forget about it for a while.
Ule Brynner plays this robot gunslinger who is supposed to antagonize guests and goad them into a gunfight which the robot is programmed to lose. He is not supposed to hurt any of the guests. None of the robots are supposed to hurt any of the guests.
A number of the robot models have been designed and built by computers so that even the technicians working and operating the the resorts at the main control center do not know everything about the robots and their construction. They bring in the robots to repair them nd upgrade them with new parts, but they do not know everything about the robots.
Things begin going wrong as a virus that stated out in Roman World then spread to Medieval World and then West World. They have been keeping things under control, but then realize that malfunctions are starting to happen to often.
They decide to call off the other upcoming stays by guests. They decide not to interrupt the current one in progressf ffearing bad publicity. However, the malfunctions continue to increase and the technicians lose control of the robots and computers. The robots rebel and attack and kill the guests.
The gunslinger robot kills James Brolin and then goes after Richard Benjamin. The gunslinger robot has jsut been upgraded with new telescopic and infrared sensors for his visual/eyes and enhanced audio to pickup the slightest sound. A fleeing technician tells Richard Benjamin that the modle robot pursuing him is and will always be one step ahead of him.
I really liked this movie.
There wass even a sequel made to this movie called "Future World" that stared peter Fonda as a newspaper reporter sent there with a fellow reporter who is a liberated woman who is a go getter. She keeps Peter Fonda at a distance.
Future World was open to replace West World because West World was the one selected by the media to spotlight when the robots went out of control in all three worlds in the prior movie.
Yule Brynner reprises his role as the gun slinger, but in a dream sequence. The company technicians show the two reporters this new process they have for putting people to sleep and inducing dreams into their minds while they sleep.
They offer to give them a demonstration. The woman reporter volunteers. It turns out that the computer probes her mind and subconscious while she is asleep and finds that she has this actual inner longing to be dominated by a macho man. She dreams that she is kidnapped by these two men. Enter Yule Brynner as the gun slinger who kicks in the door pulling out both his six-shooters and gunning the two bad guys down.
He unties the woman reporter and then takes her up in his arms and takes her off to a newarby bedroom in the house and throws her on the bed as he joins her with the dreams sequence ending.
The two reporters then later find out that the company that runs the three worlds plan to have dignataries and political leaders come to there three worlds to visit and then replace them with robot copies of them which they will control and have do their bidding.
The sequel "Future World" unfortunately is not available on DVD as of this time. - A ChristyA Message from 1973...Terrific EntertainmentI recently pulled out my copy of this movie for a re-watch and was reminded all over again how well some movies age. This is one of those. While it is a Michael Crichton story, and most books don't do well being transitioned to film, this one did. Pared down, yet maintaining the tension and smoothing out the edges too much dialogue would create, this is one of the best transitions I've seen.
Westworld, Roman World and Medieval World make up the segments of a new type of grown up Disneyland called Delos. The story revolves around what happens in Delos when a glitch (modern day folks will recognize it as a computer virus) wreaks havoc on this machine driven utopia for humans. Our two main characters, wonderfully portrayed by James Brolin and Richard Benjamin, have chosen to visit Westworld for a good old fashioned gun-slinging adventure. One of them is fully immersed while the other still feels rather odd shooting people or having random sex even if they are robots. They look and act human within the context of their programming. They get a whole lot more gunslinging than they bargained for during this very bad vacation.
Yul Brynner, our main foe, is not singing about Siam in this movie either...he's a robot gunslinger and a bad dude. And he is also infected with the virus that makes them react aggressively against the humans who blissfully vacation there. He is stunning in this movie. For a robot that displays no emotion he does an excellent job of using microexpressions and posture to create a fully realized menacing enemy that never tires or sleeps.
The virus or glitch that ruins Delos isn't limited to West World and though the movie doesn't focus on it too extensively, the mayhem in Roman World and Medieval World is just as horrifying and the results very deadly. There are secondary characters that we intermittently follow in those other worlds that allow the watcher to see what happens, if briefly.
Now, I love a movie with a morality tale behind it and this one is chock full of them. It's also quite prescient in many respects. Today, almost 40 years after it was made, we are nearly immune to the pain of others. We are entertained by reality TV where people are in danger or deprived. We watch stand-offs on TV, eyes peeled for the shoot out or dramatic suicide (as just happened the other day on FOX). We watch endless replays of bombings and grainy footage of horrific happenings (like the man who ate the person's face recently). We are entertained by the horrible and increasingly seek more extreme methods of getting an adrenaline rush. At least a lot of us are.
In this future we've taken it to the ultimate level. Robots programmed well and realistic in looks are there for any fantasy. Roman orgy, medieval crusade or western shootout, it's all there for the taking. No more virtual killing in video games, this one the paying public gets to really act out but in perfect safety. That is, until a virus hits that makes the poor robots decide getting their faces blown off isn't so fun and they best fight back. Classic technology coming to bite you back tale. You gotta love that.
Yes, I'll admit there are some 1970s-isms in there in terms of fashion, styles and behavioral norms you'll have to look over. Some of the tech is hilarious when compared with today. My microwave has more complicated boards in it! But still, its a fun romp with a good tale to tell and I highly recommend it for those who like classic sci-fi, dystopian movies, near future movies and just plain 1970s movies.