Sergio Leone's epic looks good, almost great, restored to its original running time.
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06/08/04
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
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Reviews Counted:58
Fresh:57
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.8/10
Consensus: Arguably the greatest of the spaghetti westerns, this epic features a compelling story, memorable performances, breathtaking landscapes, and a haunting score.
Runtime: 2 hrs 59 mins
Genre: Westerns
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... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef, Mario Brega
Director: Sergio Leone
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Reviews for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Top CriticLeone also endows the film with a clever visual style. His sense of scale is especially inspired.
06/08/08
[Leone] weighs every movement carefully; every footstep, every squeeze of the trigger, screams epic. Everything is important and nothing is insignificant.
07/08/03
Morricone's soundtrack is one the most powerful in the history cinema and it alone is the reason why this film should be so highly appreciated.
01/01/00
All told, and in giant widescreen, it's only blood-red adolescent fun, but it blooms like Douglas Sirk with a Gatling gun compared to the teenage demographic's current fare.
05/27/03
Top CriticThere are two kinds of people, my friend. Those who love Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and those who resist the machismo and gallows humor of what is arguably the definitive spaghetti western.
07/03/03
Long, funny, and featuring one of Ennio Morricone’s greatest scores, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is a sheer pleasure to watch.
02/13/01
An extravagantly plotted epic propelled by waves of free-flowing emotion and a palpable love for the American past
07/04/03
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.
08/01/08
Clearly the work of a master filmmaker whose style has never grown stale.
06/16/04
The uncut new print reclaims the widescreen majesty of Tonino Delli Colli's cinematography, allowing you to see every iconic wart and furrow on every bad guy's face.
08/01/03
Top CriticThe 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]
06/19/09
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
Top CriticSergio 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
Art it is, summoned out of the imagination of Leone and painted on the wide screen so vividly that we forget what marginal productions these films were.
08/05/03
Top CriticOne of the most compelling validations of the western genre’s most elemental touchstones.
05/17/04
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.
06/24/06
This is a great movie, whatever strange estuary of the western river it occupies.
08/22/03
Top CriticThough ordained from the beginning, the three-way showdown that climaxes the film is tense and thoroughly astonishing.
03/28/07
Top CriticSergio Leone sure is a great director. He has a unique visual style, combining gorgeous establishing shots of Western landscape and tense close-ups.
09/10/02
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