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Arguably the greatest of the spaghetti westerns, this epic features a compelling story, memorable performances, breathtaking landscapes, and a haunting score. Read critic reviews
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In the Southwest during the Civil War, a mysterious stranger, Joe (Clint Eastwood), and a Mexican outlaw, Tuco (Eli Wallach), form an uneasy partnership -- Joe turns in the bandit for the reward money, then rescues him just as he is being hanged. When Joe's shot at the noose goes awry during one escapade, a furious Tuco tries to have him murdered. The men re-team abruptly, however, to beat out a sadistic criminal and the Union army and find $20,000 that a soldier has buried in the desert.
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Rating: R
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Genre: Western
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Original Language: English
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Director: Sergio Leone
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Producer: Alberto Grimaldi
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Writer: Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Leone
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Distributor: United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Production Co: Produzioni Europee Associati, Constantin Film
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The cliché western. I emphasize the. This movie has a bombastic score, bloated imagery and an oppressive cinematography, and I can't get enough of all of it. This movie is like that guilty pleasure of eating a shameful portion of your favorite snack food. Everything about this movie is dripping with the best parts of an unbelievable action western. The performances are strong. This is a great comfort space for Clint Eastwood; the cards close to his chest bad-ass. Eli Wallach is the real star here, playing a difficult character alongside a master in the genre. He plays a goofy chatterbox, but he never relents his menacing edge, and makes for a formidable foil. The long pan shots across the harsh open west are masterful. The score is overbearing at every turn, which fits this movie perfectly. I think one thing that Sergio Leone was particularly good at is creating a series of self-contained scenes that live and breathe on their own terms. This helps mitigate the indulgent length of the movie. Most of the movie is a play on tense moments and extremely drawn out close-ups and build-up. The famous stand-off at the end pushes this into the absurd. This movie should not work, most imitators fail to hit this formula correctly, but The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is the gold standard for epic, operatic westerns. If you need any other reason to watch this, you can also see where Quentin Tarantino gets some of his inspiration.
Shane S Super Reviewer -
Not much needs to be said here. The best western ever made. Its mesmerizing score and epic plot combine to leave any fan of movies in awe.
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Classic in every sense of the word, this should've been the swan sung for the western genre. The film has the strength to carry the weight of the duration, it has that epic scope missing from most modern films. Eastwood is expertly cast in the role I suspect he created, the tough man with no name. The roles identified at the beginning of this film for each character is deserving and that film score is just amazing. They really should make more films like this and remember a slow burning story is just as captivating as a three hour visual blockbuster. One of a kind filmmaking and one every future or current director should watch and study carefully.
brendan n Super Reviewer -
Three outlaws pursue a cache of gold hidden in a grave. While canonical, this film is oddly structured with its inciting incident pushed to an hour and fifteen minutes into its three-hour run time. What the film is saying about goodness (or ugliness or badness) is unclear as the "good" is just as bad as the "ugly," but I can imagine that it's attempting to show that morality is more contextual than absolute, creating, as it does, an environment in which everybody is immoral even the Union and Confederate troops, who seem to be passing through this film on their way to another. Beautifully shot and operatic in scope, the filmmaking is remarkable even if the story-telling is perplexing. Overall, this classic western isn't bad or good or ugly, just moderately interesting.
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