Yeah, Iād give more for direction of Garrone if it wasnāt so chaotic.
But Iād say itās above average.
top spaghetti for my tastes, and a real winner of my top 20
9/10 8)
Iām with AngelFace on the plot being aimless. Havenāt seen it in ages but I recall falling asleep halfway through. Luckily some of it is salvaged by a memorable duel that caps the picture (despite it having one of the most obvious continuity errors ever). This being considered āone of Steffenās bestā certainly speaks volumes of his extensive Western oeuvre.
I thought this was sort of a mess, probably Steffens weakest performance, imoā¦ I loved William Bergerās gun though.
Yes, the plot is weak but the strong characters, Joe Dāamatoās great camerawork and the dark atmosphere makes it rise above the standard Steffen films. I liked most of the music but some of it would have been more fitting to horror film. The last duel scene is good though itās obviously copied from GBU.
An average one with an enormous body-count and a really inventive killing scene - death by shovel ;D. And, as some others already mentioned, Iām still wondering what Garrone wants us to know with that strange flashback-scene during the rooster fight. Maybe a residual of a cut sub-plot?
Watched it. Loved it. Crisp gunplay and sound-design. Flawless cinematography imho.
Did it have a plot? Sortaā¦ It doesnāt matter. The āwine controversyā is a non-starter. It couldāve come from Vera Cruz or New Orleans, etc. Give a cowboy some wine 'n heāll drink it. As for the flashback, it just reinforces the reality that cockfight-gambling is an old northern-Mexican tradition.
Fargo (Riccardo Garrone) kept reminding me of a 40-year-old Robert Taylor, who wouldāve been sensational in SWās at 40. Four stars.
Forthcoming on Blu-ray from Raro USA[url]http://rarovideousa.com/Hanging-for-Django-Available-for-pre-order[/url]
i canāt wait for the blue ray 
Still Blu Ray
Yep, always have to correct myself on that one most of the time though.
This spelling is a bit odd, admit it. Officially itās blu-ray, donāt know whatās the idea behind it.
Wiki says that that the registration for a trademark was easier to get by using Blu instead of Blue.
There is already a Blue Ray in our world: Neoraja caerulea - Wikipedia
Is hyphening it necessary or can you do without?
Just watched this one and I have to say that I was disappointed! The characters are extremely flat and the story hardly goes on. There are of course some good moments like when Anthony Steffen digs his grave (what an amazing moment), where the music fits very well and I canāt imagine it better, but generally the hole movie gave me the taste that it tried very hard to have an specific style. Iām not saying that it hasnāt, but I could feel an effort to be something more. I can think now of the scene where Steffen rides in and we can see him trough a Winchester trigger. I didnāt like it at all! Over the top! In my opinion the style is not something that you can force. When you do too much, you kill it. And how about the duel at the end? Garrone wanted soo much to have made The good, the bad and the ugly. It was obvious! Even the score was tending towards Morricone and stepping back when the connection became too obvious.
Maybe I was not in the mood for pasta tonight and I read that many of you like this film, but I was expecting much more! Even Macchiavelli couldnāt save it! Although being the worse film appearance of her that Iāve seen, I donāt know what Iāve would have done if she didnāt appear in it. And what an awful love story!!! And what about the Mexican couple! Ahhh!!!
I think that I should stop writing about it. :-X
So, conclusion. 2/5 :
P.S.: What the heck were those black & white flashbacks??? :o
now, i donāt even remember those scene you mentioned, itās three years iāve seen it, but was disappointed by it too back then
I happen to love this film but I have to agree with you on the filmās flaws Salty Jim. I wrote about some of this in my review for fistfulofpasta.com
Edit: I just finished reading the review I wrote (its one of the first that I wrote) and Iām cringing at how bad my writing is lol.
[quote=āCol. Douglas Mortimer, post:66, topic:802ā]I happen to love this film but I have to agree with you on the filmās flaws Salty Jim. I wrote about some of this in my review for fistfulofpasta.com
Edit: I just finished reading the review I wrote (its one of the first that I wrote) and Iām cringing at how bad my writing is lol.[/quote]
Nothing wrong with that review. I agree on most things (the lethal shovel for instance) but wouldnāt rate the movie as high as you do. The premise about the Mexicans smuggled across the border only to be forced to do slave labor sounds interesting, but nothing in particular is done with it, itās just one shootout after another, with the story - as Salty Jim says - hardly going on. Sloppy movie.
Which one is your review? There are two at fistfulofpasta.
[quote=āCol. Douglas Mortimer, post:66, topic:802ā]I happen to love this film but I have to agree with you on the filmās flaws Salty Jim. I wrote about some of this in my review for fistfulofpasta.com
Edit: I just finished reading the review I wrote (its one of the first that I wrote) and Iām cringing at how bad my writing is lol.[/quote]
Youāre exaggerating quite a bit.
This one:
http://fistfulofpasta.com/index.php?go=reviews/noroomtodielen