The Good, The Bad and The Ugly reviewed

Six may be the perfect number but the third was definitely the best! This film was perfect it had all the things that made the first two good and so much more. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly saw the return of Clint Eastwood as the Man with no name (The Good), the return of Lee Van Cleef this time as Angel Eyes (The Bad) and Eli Wallach as Tuco ( The Ugly.) While some may say the film was slow to start and that it went on for too long it doesn't take away from the pure excellence of the movie. The film features the three men going after 200,000 dollars but they get caught up several times in the civil war on the way to the money the film is filled to the brim with gunfights and kick ass-ery.

Ennio Morricone proved his genius once again with the world renowned the Good, The Bad and The Ugly theme which is a very iconic piece and is one of my favorite non john Williams pieces. This film had a terrific cast, an amazing director and a incredible composer. It is one of the first films you think of when some one mentions western films and I can see why this is truly one of the best western films ever and by far the best film to come out of the 60's.

This is such a good movie that it worries me that it took me this long to watch it, if you haven't seen it go watch it! I can guarantee if you like westerns or even action movies in general you will love this movie. This is a must watch movie with a poncho wearing six shooter wielding horseback riding cowboy.

For a few dollars more reviewed

The Man With No Name is back but not quite as good as the last time! I still think Clint Eastwood is the ultimate cowboy, I still think that his poncho is awesome however I still think A fistful of dollars is the greatest movie I have ever seen. For a few dollars more was a superb film, It had a great cast, a great story and a great soundtrack, it was almost perfect. My only complaint is that Eastwood's character seemed unimportant to the story, he was cool and made the film more interesting but the story seemed to focus too much on Colonel Douglas Mortimer (played by Lee Van Cleef.)

Colonel Douglas Mortimer is a rival bounty to The Man With No Name and meet when they go after the same man (El Indio) and after some hat shooting they team up and go after El Indio together. The team up has many humorous moments as well as some purely kick ass moments. The addition of the Colonel Douglas Mortimer character did make for an interesting team-up however I felt it diluted Eastwood's character. The gunfights were spectacular not cinematic but exciting, again you could tell that the film was not up to modern standards and the audio was slightly behind the video but as I've said before I love that style of film making.

This film is not as good as For a fistful of dollars but it's still one of the greatest western films of all time and is worth watching but watch For a fistful of dollars first. You get to see some more characterization of The Man With No Name, you see a lot more of his human side as in the first film he seems very uncaring and cold (until the end.) Guess the only thing left to do is go and see how it holds up against The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.