Part two of Colizzi trilogy,i find his first 2 films o.k. but cat was never shown being deadly enough it was more implied than deminstrated. a little more gun play would have been nice.ace high was a overlylong also.i prefer god forgives…but i give this one 3 stars.
Agreed. God forgives… is the best movie in the trilogy where Boot Hill is clearly the worst of the lot. Ace High ain’t bad though, an enjoyable movie, didn’t think it overlong. 3 stars is about right, though.
it’s overambitious I think, which hurts the film. It wants to be epic, but it’s just very long and the writing is not so good… it had potential though…
Colizzi is the most underrated director of SWs, all his 3 SWs are of similar quality, but I think that Boot Hill is the best of them, and whilst nobody likes this one, it’s also the most underrated.
Only Leone and Corbucci (in his best films) were more stylish directors than Colizzi.
[quote=“stanton, post:7, topic:648”]I also think that Colizzi’s SWs are not so reputable amongst SW fans BECAUSE Spencer/Hill are starring in them.[/quote]Yes I think so too, there are some sw fans who doesn’t want to watch any of Hill &/or Spencer films because they think they’re all comedies. It doesn’t help that most of their serious films have been marketed as comedies.
Unfortunately this is true. Since the Trinity movies starring Spencer/Hill were so popular, producers tried to dub the serious movies of the duo with comedy versions in order to repeat the success of the Trinity movies. Bad, bad thing !!! For instance ‘Preparati la bara’ (Django und die Bande der Gehängten) was redubbed and retitled into ‘Joe der Galgenvogel’. The hard scenes were cut and the story became completely different 'cause of the dub. Even though Spencer is not in the movie and has nothing to do with ‘Preparati la bara’ Hill is constantly referring to him and talking about him as ‘Der Dicke’ (the fatty or something like that) !!! That comedy version is completely bullshit !!!
Not a bad spag but, as already stated, too long for its own good. Wallach and Kevin McCarthy are excellent in it, though. I’ve watched it a couple times so I must like it…
With the people involved in this movie…it simply should have been better.
I have seen the long, uncut Italian version and frankly it doesn’t help the movie much, if at all.
It does add a little more depth to why Eli wants revenge so badly; but, that can’t save this movie, in my opinion.
GOD FORGIVES–I DON’T is easily my favorite of Colizzi’s work.
The one I watched was the full version, and I liked it very much.
I happen to enjoy slow-paced movies, they’re good as to develop their characters.
But actually, I don’t think Ace High is slow… (I’d definitely say that 'bout Four of the Apocalypse and Death Rides a Horse, which ARE slow!)