Review – Westworld

What is it about Michael Crichton and theme parks gone bad? Two decades or so before the dinosaurs, he wrote and directed this genre classic about a breakdown at a fantasy park staffed by life-like robots. The robots are great because the wealthy guests can do whatever they want with them, which in the Westworld part of the park apparently mostly involves either screwing them or shooting them. But things turn ugly in a hurry when the machines malfunction and start fighting back for real. Particularly chilling is a robot gunfighter (Yul Brynner) who goes after the two main characters. Though overall this is a good movie, the premise is a nagging problem. It’s just a little hard to watch without dwelling on all the potential holes in the robot make-believe scheme. Worth seeing