Rattler Kid / Un hombre vino a matar / L’uomo venuto per uccidere (León Klimovsky, 1967)

Bad_Lieutenant · November 6, 2008, 8:12am

Well, I didn’t like it:
http://www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/Rattler_Kid_mini_review

But maybe you will.

ENNIOO · October 5, 2009, 11:02pm

Routine stuff with Wyler looking as he is going to cry at times. Bad Lieutenant’s review is spot on.

autephex · October 6, 2009, 3:37pm

didn’t care for this one at all… prettty boring. there is a pretty good German print of this, but not really worth the effort to make a new English version IMO

yea, Bad Lieutenant has said all that needs to be said about Rattler Kid…

ENNIOO · October 6, 2009, 4:33pm

Watched a fandub of the German disc.

autephex · October 6, 2009, 4:35pm

ah, didn’t know one already existed out there… good, now i have an excuse not to do one

ENNIOO · October 6, 2009, 4:39pm

Thought I had better let you know just in case .

Dillinger · October 6, 2009, 4:56pm

Rattler Kid is rather Rattler shit. Completely dull with dull minister Wyler in the lead and a completely uninspired story. On top of that we have a boring US western look.

No Sir, I don’t like it.

autephex · October 6, 2009, 5:02pm

disappointing since it played a big role in that documentary…

Dillinger · October 6, 2009, 5:03pm

Really? Which one?

autephex · October 6, 2009, 5:17pm

L’America a Roma … begins with William Bogart watching a tape of Rattler Kid with his family and friends… i guess the film didn’t necessarily have a big role, but it imprinted me with the idea it was going to be a good spaghetti

Dillinger · October 6, 2009, 5:19pm

I don’t know this documentary. Too bad it caused such a disappointment!

autephex · October 6, 2009, 5:26pm

its still a pretty good doc about spaghettis, you should check it out

stanton · October 6, 2009, 6:21pm

He he, good one. I will use it for the database. Perfect short comment.

ENNIOO · October 6, 2009, 8:06pm

Wondered which western this was.

Dillinger · October 7, 2009, 9:04am

Well, I’m a poet in disguise…

Phil_H · September 28, 2010, 9:41am

As said above, not a great one this.
However, I didn’t hate it as much as some seem to. It was poorly executed for the most part but it kept me awake which is an achievement in itself these days.
Watched the fandub from the German DVD with the deleted cactus fighting scene added on. This scene is probably the best in the film so why it was ever cut out is beyond me. It’s not even particularly brutal. Especially for a Spaghetti circa 1967.

hipcamp · September 28, 2010, 8:38pm

Looking forward to watching that fandub. All I’ve ever seen is the Unicorn tape, does anyone know if that was uncut?

The_Stranger · October 1, 2010, 2:33pm

Oh my God. What a boring SW.
The film has nothing that makes it interesting. Klimovsky what you have done to us with this?
The film has no SW elements. It all seems very American.
And then the figure of the Rattler Kid. The man wants to rob a bank and happened to meet … Who … his elementary school teacher. :o What a stupid idea.

I am not asleep … but my feet. ;D
For the film Klimovsky deserves a medal. >:(

A word to the German DVD. It has good image quality.
But this cactus fighting scene is missing. And Phil has described it as the best part of the film. Too bad. But this scene probably would not have saved the film.

Mickey13 · November 22, 2022, 3:00pm

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I didn’t mind this one as much as some people seem to have, that being said, there is no point in gainsaying what has already been stated about the film, it is definitely very American in its overall disposition and completely at a loss for a style distinctive enough to distinguish it from innumerable other works of this kind. I guess it is not so hopeless because it kept my attention throughout, but Klimovsky’s simplistic craftsmanship happens to be on the nugatory side here.

The sentimentality inhering in the storyline, flabby writing and Masi’s old-fashioned score only tend to exacerbate things further and make the film feel at least ten years older than it really is, some of the film’s shootouts are edited in an incredibly cumbersome fashion too. The wimpish attitude of Wyler’s character and the banal redemption arc do not redress the situation either, so what you have here is a pretty mediocre affair with very few redeeming qualities; I suppose it moves at a somewhat steady pace and features some more character elaboration than usual even if is of the corny kind, but in all honesty, do not expect too much, this is strictly pedestrian stuff.

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