Couldn't get into this one, really enjoyed the ending, but for large parts I just couldn't enjoy it. I guess I'm not really into westerns, I only watched it because Clint Eastwood was in it, I decided to watch all/most of his films. Didn't enjoy the first film of this trilogy either.
shareI am formerly known as HillieBoliday....Member since May 2006
Oh well....sorry. It is somewhat slowly paced; but that's part of the appeal for me. It gives me a chance to follow the plot, hate the obvious villains, feel empathy for the victims, agonize for the good guys and celebrate the bad a$$ that eventually takes the bad ones out. The Clint Eastwood/Lee Van Cleef trilogy makes you wait for the climax, and I Love It! I enjoy the time it takes to build and complete the story and it gives me my money's worth. Nothing I hate worse than a '60 second man'....so to speak!!
"OOhhhooo....I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"
I love westerns and found it too slow for my taste. It's always surprised me how highly rated this is on IMDB. I like it but don't love it. 7/10.
shareI am formerly known as HillieBoliday....Member since May 2006
Maybe you're somewhat younger than generations like myself who were able to see this in the theatres during it's initial release back in the 60's. It's highly rated partly because...we watched Clint Eastwood, evolve from a TV western star in 'Rawhide'; into a MOTION PICTURE star in a new stylized "shoot em up" that we had never seen before. But to each his own. Again...I prefer a 'man with a slow hand,' or a 'man who can slow walk me down'.....Lol....and an easy paced nugget like this to go with it!
"OOhhhooo....I'M GON' TELL MAMA!"
The problem with the film is that it peaks too soon. The first 20 or 30 minutes establishing Mortimer, Manco, and Indio are fantastic sequences. Some of the best opening scenes in any western. Spaghetti or Hollywood.
Sergio Leone before or since never did this again where the main characters have their own introductory scenes as if they have their own little short film, and from Mortimer's scene on the train to Indio's jail break, it's terrific.
Then it just starts to drag a bit. The hat shooting scene isn't as exciting as it could've been. The bank robbery is boring, and frankly doesn't make much sense. Mortimer wants to kill Indio but stays in his hotel room? And then because Leone didn't want Eastwood's character to escape again because it would just mean doing another Yojimbo/Fistful, it means Indio letting them escape which means blaming his men etc and it just meanders. For me, the film fails to live up to the promising beginning.