ManiakJiggy This is How Movies Should Be Made

WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

alexandre michel liberman (tmwest) Red Sun has a great cast, good story, but it seems they spent the budget on the actors and left little for the rest. I cannot help comparing to "Escape From Fort Bravo" where the Indian attack scenes had all the expertise of MGM. In this western made in Spain you feel the distance from Hollywood, specially in the well planned,but otherwise lacking Indian combat scenes, with the exception of that wonderful confrontation between a Samurai (Toshiro Mifune) and a Native American. Alain Delon is an excellent villain and the relationship between Toshiro Mifune and Charles Bronson is the best reason for seeing this film.

Bolesroor This one hurts. "Red Sun" could have been great, an all-time classic. Good story, great cast… but the execution is sloppy and tired. It's clear from the start of the film what's supposed to happen: Cowboy and Samurai are supposed to form an alliance out of necessity, which deepens into a tentative friendship, and finally becomes a profound respect for one another's culture. Unfortunately this formula is played out without much energy or conviction. Bronson and Mifune seem to go through the motions here, and Bronson spends far too much time trying to ditch his partner, which becomes frustrating and tiresome when we as an audience know the movie's over if he succeeds. Ursula Andress- the goddess- steals the show here as a black-hearted hooker who will do anything- and anyone- to get what she wants.There are also some rather large plot holes… why in God's name wouldn't Gauche be sure that Bronson was dead before riding away with all of his money? Any particular reason Gauche needed the sword after stealing thousands in gold from the train AND the Japanese Ambassador's money? Why would Gauche let Kuroda live? And volunteer his name? Just to set up the story, I suppose. The laziness of the script is also evident in the dialogue between the two leads: neither of them has anything clever, profound or funny to say. They both just grumble their way through most of the film.The movie is directed fairly lifelessly by Terence Young, who at this point in his career seemed to be lacking in passion to say the least. "Red Sun" was made only a year before his numbing, comatose "The Valachi Papers," a film so limp they should have revoked his union card. This is not a terrible movie, and definitely worth a look for any Bronson die-hards or fans of Ursula's heavenly body... everyone else should keep walking. GRADE: C-NOTE: "Red Sun" is completely ripe for a re-make.

legendaryunderdog This is possibly one of Charles Bronson's best cinematic performances with the exception of a few of his other films. Albeit the story is a little corny and there seems to be a lot of action going on all the time (which is O.K. with me) this movie really spoke volumes to me. Learning that this film is based on an incident that supposedly happened around 1870, that blew me away alone. A gunslinger, a samurai and a woman who only cares for herself (Ursula Andress) make up for the meat of the cast. A lot of action sequences in this movie and it is a little funny in some spots, Bronson (unusually) provides a lot of the laughs in the film. This movie is incorporating all different types of stuff and it just seems a little to-good-to-be-true type movie, but I really really really liked it! It's not to often that you get to see a gunfighter and a samurai fight on the same side in a "traditional" spaghetti western. Terence Young did a great job on this film. 8 out of 10 stars any day of the week.

ma-cortes This Spaghetti Western with enjoyable casting (Bronson , Mifune , Delon and Andress) concerns about robbing a Japanese blade from a train crossing American West and the Japan Ambassador had for gift of emperor (the Japanese Ambassador refers to the emperor as the "Mikado") to US President . The thieves result to be Charles Bronson and Alain Delon . But Bronson (one of The Magnificent Seven) is double-crossed by Delon , then Toshiro Mifune (one of the Seven Samurai) along with Bronson team up as two unlikely heroes . This is a surprisingly low-key Bronson Western , this time accompanied by the Japanese star number one , Mifune . Bronson as another of his two-fisted gunfighters and joining forces with a Katana expert , a specialist on martial arts well played by Mifune to find a missing valuable blade and the stolen loot.The picture contains an interesting plot ,action Western , shootouts and a little bit of campy and refreshing humor . It's an improbable blending of standard Western , tongue-in-cheek and chop-socky . A clever premise , gunslingers against samurais , and agreeable international cast make this oater well worth the watching . As the movie stars U.S. born Charles Bronson, Japanese actor Toshirô Mifune, French actor Alain Delon and Swiss actress Ursula Andress , it was filmed in Spain by the British director Terence Young . Pretty good Charles Bronson in his ordinary tough role , this film is one of Charles Bronson's 70s westerns ; his westerns made during the 1970s include Chino (1973), Red sun (1971), Chato the Apache (1972), From noon till three (1976), Nevada Express (1975) and The White Buffalo (1977) . Besides , there appears usual secondaries from Italian Western as Anthony Dawson , Guido Lollobrigida , Ricardo Palacios , Bernade Barta Barry and several others . Considerable and spectacular musical score by Maurice Jarre (Lawrence of Arabia) . The motion picture was regularly directed by Terence Young (Dr.No , From Russia , Thunderball.. among others) but turned to be entertaining . The picture takes part of a sub-genre in which during the period of the 70s combined Spaghetti Western and art martial with original influence from ¨David Carradine's Kung Fu ¨ series , for example : ¨Karate law in the west ¨(Tonino Ricci), ¨The Karate , the Colt and the impostor¨ (Anthony M Dawson) , ¨ My name is Shangai Joe¨ (Mario Caiano) and ¨ Return of Shangai Joe ( Bitto Albertini)¨, furthermore ¨ The white, the yellow and the black¨(Sergio Corbucci) that bears remarkable resemblance to ¨Red sun ¨ . It's an offbeat , muddle and uneven Western but will appeal to Bronson , Andress and Delon fans.