Leone's Dollars Trilogy is without a doubt one of the all time classic series when it comes to all out action, suspense and, well, coolness. The film in the series that is considered a "Great Film" would have to be The Good the Bad and the Ugly, but the absolute coolest of the series is, without a doubt, For a Few Dollars More. Maybe not the best, but certainly the most fun of the entire trilogy, and definitely one to put on your queue the next time you sign into your movie download service.
The movie is just full of neat, fun ideas. We get to see Clint Eastwood walking slowly towards a saloon, in the rain, with one hand hidden, and beating up on a bounty with only one fist. We get to see Lee Van Cleef pulling out a big arsenal of rifles and pistols and piecing them together bit by bit to snipe at a fleeing bad guy. And the villain is probably the strangest and coolest of the series.
The villain and his pocket watch are really a great film duo. The pocket watch and the way he relates to it... It's almost as if they're partners in crime. See, the villain plays the musical pocket watch, and when the melody finishes playing, he draws his gun and shoots his victim dead. It's interesting the way it gives a definite timeline to the act of murder, and really makes the guy come across as a dastardly jerk.
Lee Van Cleef plays Colonel Mortimer, who was once a Civil War Hero and has since become a bounty hunter. He plays a sort of a paternal role to Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name, teaching him a few things about the craft that he doesn't really know quite yet, while pursuing a somewhat different objective. While The Man With No Name just wants to make a few bucks, Mortimer is hoping to get revenge.
The two have one of the all time best Man Movie bonding scenes, shooting each other's hats off of their respective heads in an effort to impress and intimidate one another.
No other Spaghetti Western uses music quite as interestingly as this one. The final showdown utilizes the musical pocket watch, and an orchestrated version of the melody it plays to build up an incredible amount of tension, so by the time someone finally fires a gun, you'll be crazy with anticipation and begging them to just get it over with already so you can stop clutching your fists.
Leone is without a doubt one of the all time greats, and this is one of his funnest films. It's only too bad that his career was cut short before he could finish Stalingrad, his epic WWII film he had plans to create.
If there's only one thing missing from the film, it's Eli Wallach, who's turn as Tuco may have been one of the all time great western performances, but regardless, the film is a whole heck of a lot of fun.
The movie is just full of neat, fun ideas. We get to see Clint Eastwood walking slowly towards a saloon, in the rain, with one hand hidden, and beating up on a bounty with only one fist. We get to see Lee Van Cleef pulling out a big arsenal of rifles and pistols and piecing them together bit by bit to snipe at a fleeing bad guy. And the villain is probably the strangest and coolest of the series.
The villain and his pocket watch are really a great film duo. The pocket watch and the way he relates to it... It's almost as if they're partners in crime. See, the villain plays the musical pocket watch, and when the melody finishes playing, he draws his gun and shoots his victim dead. It's interesting the way it gives a definite timeline to the act of murder, and really makes the guy come across as a dastardly jerk.
Lee Van Cleef plays Colonel Mortimer, who was once a Civil War Hero and has since become a bounty hunter. He plays a sort of a paternal role to Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name, teaching him a few things about the craft that he doesn't really know quite yet, while pursuing a somewhat different objective. While The Man With No Name just wants to make a few bucks, Mortimer is hoping to get revenge.
The two have one of the all time best Man Movie bonding scenes, shooting each other's hats off of their respective heads in an effort to impress and intimidate one another.
No other Spaghetti Western uses music quite as interestingly as this one. The final showdown utilizes the musical pocket watch, and an orchestrated version of the melody it plays to build up an incredible amount of tension, so by the time someone finally fires a gun, you'll be crazy with anticipation and begging them to just get it over with already so you can stop clutching your fists.
Leone is without a doubt one of the all time greats, and this is one of his funnest films. It's only too bad that his career was cut short before he could finish Stalingrad, his epic WWII film he had plans to create.
If there's only one thing missing from the film, it's Eli Wallach, who's turn as Tuco may have been one of the all time great western performances, but regardless, the film is a whole heck of a lot of fun.
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