KnotMissPriceless
Why so much hype?
Flyerplesys
Perfectly adorable
Brenda
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
Beulah Bram
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
dana-97843
This film is a masterpiece it was also released as Fistful of Dynamite. Several versions of this film are floating around,some TV versions are butchered,thus it unfairly got some bad reviews.The best way to view it is BUY the UNCUT long version on DVD.If you are able to pick up the uncut version you are in for a real treat.Everything about it is sensational the cinematography,the soundtrack,the story, the acting,tremendous action scenes, it also makes great use of flashbacks and slow motion shots.This movie is just is as good as Once Upon a Time in the West and The Good Bad and the Ugly. It was poorly released in two versions and as stated most TV versions are edited so much you can hardly figure out some parts of the movie.Because of the weak theatrical release and butchered TV versions many people have neverseen or heard of this movie,believe me if you like Sergio Leone you will love this movie.It is James Coburn's best film.Haunting soundtrack that you will never forget.I have seen this movie 7 times it is one of the best westerns ever made !!! Eli Wallach was suppose to get the Rod Steiger role but the studio wanted a bigger name.
Tom Willett (yonhope)
Many truly epic scenes that could easily have been made into a very excellent movie. It needed a better ending. The ending could have been very quick and satisfying. Lose all the background music and start over with one guitar, maybe. There are periods of comedy in the movie and some great scenes with probably thousands of extras, but every time it starts to get good the director inserts some slow motion flashback that is of no value to the audience. Coburn and Steiger are good but they do not need the accents. The close ups of eyes is overdone as one would expect in a spaghetti western. If one half hour was cut from this film and good background music was written this would be an Academy Award contender.
professorjeffreypbrown
I have no problem overall with the movie. The story is decent, albeit a little far fetched, but after all, this is fiction. But the movie is near 2 1/2 hours long. A half hour could be cut just by decreasing the amount of time the actors stare at each other. Sure, I know it's a Sergio technique, but it doesn't work well when there's little tension. When the bad guy is staring down the good guy in Once Upon a Time in the West or the Good, the Bad, the Ugly there's real tension there. Two unarmed guys staring at each other in an empty room, not the same thing. There are also disjointed moments in the film, like when Miranda's (Rod Steiger) kids are lying about dead in a cave. Didn't see that happen. And why did Mallory shoot his friend in the Irish pub? Again, overall a solid film. Classic? Nope, fell far short of that for me.
inspectors71
Junk.Sergio Leone was an acquired taste--his "Dollar Trilogy" runs the gamut from lean/lyrical to surreal/stupefying. Leone comes a cropper with his elephantine "A Fistful of Dynamite," a low-brid combination of political revolution, infantile plotting, and dreadful performances.Although "Duck You Sucker" (the alternate title) tries to be a message film, all we get is incoherence, with buckets of blood and one of the weirder musical scores I've heard. Rod Steiger and James Coburn are trapped in bad make-up and/or bad accents as they slaughter and butcher and incinerate roughly a third of the Mexican Army in the 1910 Revolution. I kept hoping, during what seemed to be a week of movie watching, that some of the old surrealistic, alternate-universe, western magic would appear. All I got for my effort of watching A Fistful of Dynamite was a weak headache, and I felt sad for Sergio Leone because, although he wasn't a great director, he had a knack for big storytelling.And that knack wasn't apparent in this incomprehensible and artsy- fartsy bloodbath.
