The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo.) (1966)
Average Rating: 8.8/10
Reviews Counted: 67
Fresh: 65 | Rotten: 2
Arguably the greatest of the spaghetti westerns, this epic features a compelling story, memorable performances, breathtaking landscapes, and a haunting score.
Average Rating: 8/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 2
Arguably the greatest of the spaghetti westerns, this epic features a compelling story, memorable performances, breathtaking landscapes, and a haunting score.
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In the last and the best installment of his so-called "Dollars" trilogy of Sergio Leone-directed "spaghetti westerns," Clint Eastwood reprised the role of a taciturn, enigmatic loner. Here he searches for a cache of stolen gold against rivals the Bad (Lee Van Cleef), a ruthless bounty hunter, and the Ugly (Eli Wallach), a Mexican bandit. Though dubbed "the Good," Eastwood's character is not much better than his opponents -- he is just smarter and shoots faster. The film's title reveals its
Dec 23, 1966 Wide
Nov 18, 1997
United Artists
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All Critics (67) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (73) | Rotten (2) | DVD (38)
All three arrive at the cache at the same time. Who gets it? Director Leone doesn't seem to care very much, and after 161 minutes of mayhem, audiences aren't likely to either.
Top CriticThe third in the Clint Eastwood series of Italo westerns, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is exactly that -- a curious amalgam of the visually striking, the dramatically feeble and the offensively sadistic.
Though ordained from the beginning, the three-way showdown that climaxes the film is tense and thoroughly astonishing.
Sergio Leone's grandiose 1966 western epic is nothing less than a masterclass in movie storytelling, a dynamic testament to the sheer, invigorating uniqueness of cinema.
Sergio Leone's epic looks good, almost great, restored to its original running time.
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.
Leone's liberal use of widescreen shots in conjunction with extreme close-ups gives the movie an epic quality that is matched in scope by a skeletal narrative structure that breathes with a poker-faced mood, tone, and personality.
A unique vision of the American West as place of desolation and ruin on a truly epic scale.
The defining spaghetti western pits a charismatic Clint Eastwood against partner and nemesis Eli Wallach and perpetual enemy Lee Van Cleef.
Potent Italian-Western shoot-'em up/war drama.
Its parody of genre conventions resonates with scope and power.
Sergio Leone's dramatic directing style is powerful and well delivered, even by today's standards.
The fellas in Leone's films are seething cesspools of hatred and frustration whose only satisfaction-however fleeting-is found in pursuit and acquisition of money
The sublime film music, now-iconic situations (like the climactic ghost town shootout), and sure visual style add up to a pitch-perfect genre pic that ongoingly influences generations of hip filmmakers. [Blu-ray]
Leone created a phenomenal film but also created some of the most memorable shots in film history. The extreme close-ups are still impressive to this day.
It still looks a treat and a bold and largely successful attempt to recast the traditions of the genre in a new, sometimes critical, almost operatic way.
The visuals are eye-popping, the score (by Ennio Morricone) magnificent, the Civil War set-pieces both stunning and haunting. If you're going to end a trilogy, this is the way to do it.
The new length gives a clearer view of the civil war context: a nightmare of panic as the south flees before the Union's advance.
Re-released movies are forever claiming to be iconic, but few can hold the title as easily as Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
Sergio Leone's masterpiece is as enduring as the scorched desert in which it is filmed. Also receives props for most effective use of whistling ever.
Amid the endless homages and the sheer adoration meted out to Sergio Leone's ambitious, pricier finale to his Spaghetti Western trilogy, it's easy to forget just how damn good the film is.
Leone also endows the film with a clever visual style. His sense of scale is especially inspired.
The definitive spaghetti western.
Audience Reviews for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Il Buono, il Brutto, il Cattivo.)
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- Tuco the Ugly: BLONDY! YOU'RE A SON OF A...
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- The Good: There are two kinds of people in the world those with guns and those that dig. You dig?
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- Tuco the Ugly: When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.
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- The Good: I'll sleep better knowing my good friend is by my side to protect me.
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- Tuco the Ugly: I'm innocent, I'm an innocent farmer.
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- The Good: Every gun makes its own tune.
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Foreign Titles
- Zwei glorreiche Halunken (DE)
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (UK)
