Very disappointed :(

Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Blistering performances.

I like this film. It's a 1971 spaghetti western, so be prepared to make some allowances. Still, it's worth watching, if only for the incomparable Toshiro Mifune. Gentlemen will be pleased to see Ursula Andress, Capucine, Monica Randall. And who but Delon could look gorgeous even with a gold tooth?Nobody should expect "serious" entertainment from this film, so lighten up and enjoy a bit of light romp.And to whomever said this is "ripe for remake," I say bite your tongue! I can only imagine the revolting, mushy mess today's politically-correct Hollywood would turn it into. Who would replace Bronson? The ineffectual Brad Pitt (ugh!)? And Delon? No, some things are best just not attempted.

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.

Another IMDb member suggested in their comments that a nude scene from Ursule Andress should help save a movie. Add another brief nude brothel moment, and Cappucine and a cast of otherwise pretty good actors and the movie becomes watchable but continuity disasters and bad directing can't garner much more than a mediocre 5 out of 10. Watch for wardrobe blunders as well. Anachronisms are so rampant that we found ourselves watching for more as we labored through the amateur camera work and dialog. If you're a Bronson fan, then sitting through this is mandatory so the "Ive seen all of his movies" quote can be used with pride, but I doubt this one is in his personal top 10 favorites.This is one movie that Mifune would probably like to forget this one as well..

On the surface Red Sun appears to be a fairly standard shoot-em-up with the attendant 'who's the real nasty?' sub-plot thrown in for a bit of mystery. But the careful observer will discover many more layers of this particular onion pitting cultures (and genders) against each other with a few surprising results and plenty of thought-provoking situations designed to keep this one on the shelf as a 'keeper'.Bronson fans (like me) will note this is the second of his 'samurai connection'westerns...Magnificent Seven being the first...though the debate will probably never be resolved as to which was the better performance. True, some of the dialogue in this movie borders on juvenile, but overall I rate the movie very high.