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
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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] Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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.
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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10/10 |
Leone also endows the film with a clever visual style. His sense of scale is especially inspired. Full Review |
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Though ordained from the beginning, the three-way showdown that climaxes the film is tense and thoroughly astonishing. Full Review |
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4/4 |
The definitive spaghetti western. Full Review |
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5/6 |
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. Full Review |
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You don't really need me to review THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY for you, do you? Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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3/4 |
...while the film is seriously overlong, there are enough elements here to hold the interest of even the most impatient viewer. Full Review |
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Sergio Leone's baroque western might be his greatest...Watch how Clint Eastwood amazingly acts with just his teeth and those squinty eyes. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Clearly the work of a master filmmaker whose style has never grown stale. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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