Sam Chisolm is played by Denzel Washington. He's described as a warrant officer from Wichita, Kansas and the leader of the seven outlaws.
The herd of renegades include Josh Faraday (Chris Pratt), a cardsharp; Goodnight Robicheaux (Ethan Hawke), a marksman who saw action at Antietam; his sidekick, Billy Rocks (Byung-hun Lee), who keeps a lethal weapon in his hair; Jack Horne (Vincent D’Onofrio), a wild man of the woods; Vasquez (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), an outlaw; and a Comanche warrior, Red Harvest (Martin Sensmeier), whose horse wears even more face paint than he does.
The action is big and gleeful, with violence for the sake of righteousness as much as it's for the sake of itself.
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