Kung Fu Brothers in the Wild West / Kung Fu nel pazzo west (Man Yi Yang, 1973)

[Mickey13]

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The movie basically constitutes poor man’s Shanghai Joe, except that it substitutes gore with slapstick and resolutely plunges into pure parody and unabashed absurdity with some superficial references to the Watergate scandal and the assassination of JFK. Out of all spaghetti western productions, it probably incorporates the most abrasive, incohesive soundtrack which recycles themes from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, For a Few Dollars More, Dr. No (yes, the Bond flick), apart from some other material including circus music, Hammond organ riffs and something which sounds an awful lot like Tirol accordion noodlings. At one point before bandits ride into town, there is a scene in which the sound of hundreds of raspberries (or evacuations) is layered on top of the hubbub of multiple toilets being flushed all at once.

As if that were not enough, there is very little continuity in the way most sequences are spliced together, the framing and composition exhibit so much shoddiness and choppiness that it is often tough for the viewer to piece the action together on the basis of provided shots which is not remedied in the slightest by the ferociously vertiginous camerawork. If self-inflicted torture is your idea of having a good time, this might be right up your alley. Possibly one of the most ramshackle trainwrecks this genre ever saw, the filmmaking here is of such contemptible quality the words inevitably fail to reflect the thoroughgoing decrepitude of the execution the likes of which may be seen only in a handful of other projects helmed by genre’s worst directors such as Crea or Lattanzi. In other words, it has to be seen to be believed, though familiarizing oneself with the content of this so-called production is highly inadvisable.