The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
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Reviews Counted: 48 Fresh: 48 Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8.7/10
Consensus: Arguably the greatest of the spaghetti westerns, this epic features a compelling story, memorable performances, breathtaking landscapes, and a haunting score. more
Runtime: 2 hrs 59 mins
Synopsis:
Blondie (Clint Eastwood) and Tuco (Eli Wallach) are gunmen who admire each other professionally but dislike each other personally. Encountering a group of dying soldiers, Tuco learns the location of the graveyard where a Confederate treasure is buried, while Blondie learns the identity... [More]
Genre: Westerns
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Mario Brega, Aldo Giuffre
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Reviews
Though ordained from the beginning, the three-way showdown that climaxes the film is tense and thoroughly astonishing.
03/28/07 07:19 PM
Top Critic You don't really need me to review THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY for you, do you?
06/27/05 04:49 PM
Town streets stretch wider than eight-lane freeways, gargoyle-faced henchmen lurk behind every tumbleweed, and Ennio Morricone's majestic electric coyote score rules over all.
01/21/05 07:13 PM
...while the film is seriously overlong, there are enough elements here to hold the interest of even the most impatient viewer.
08/21/04 10:35 PM
Sergio Leone's baroque western might be his greatest...Watch how Clint Eastwood amazingly acts with just his teeth and those squinty eyes.
06/18/04 03:49 PM
Clearly the work of a master filmmaker whose style has never grown stale.
06/16/04 03:10 PM
There are many features that contribute to The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly’s belated renown, and none as idiosyncratic as Ennio Morricone’s score.
06/08/04 08:43 PM
Sergio Leone's epic looks good, almost great, restored to its original running time.
06/08/04 08:16 AM
Top Critic A beautiful film, directed with supreme confidence and passion — and lots of action.
05/24/04 05:33 PM
One of the most compelling validations of the western genre’s most elemental touchstones.
05/17/04 09:11 PM
The point is not what happens in the movie but how it happens, a curious blend of partly humorous, partly dramatic, partly elegiac legend.
04/29/04 03:49 PM
Of all the great films of the 1960s, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is one of a fistful that can be truly appreciated only on the big screen.
09/11/03 11:19 PM
Top Critic Leone's blockbuster is balanced on the razor's edge between popular entertainment and art film. It took classic American themes and turned them inside out.
09/11/03 01:50 PM
Top Critic Though the restoration isn't substantial, any excuse will do to revisit the moment when a young Clint Eastwood became a star and in the process helped reinvent the Western.
09/05/03 01:45 PM
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