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.

A Fistful of Dollars reviewed

The Rojo brothers on one side, the Baxters on the other and Clint Eastwood right in the middle. Clint Eastwood has so much hype about him being the ultimate cowboy and so on but I had only seen one film with him in (Gran Turino) and he wasn't a cowboy in it, so I had no frame of reference. Then I saw a fistful of dollars and now I know, he is the greatest cowboy of all time. In the first five minutes I was hooked and that was before anything had really happened so the next ninety one minutes blew my mind.

The film starts of Eastwood riding in to a suffering town with two gangs fighting over leadership ( the Rojo and the Baxters) both gangs try to hire the Eastwood, he takes both jobs and sets about tricking them into fighting each other while he goes about taking their money. Of course by the end Eastwood proves himself to be a hero but at the start he seems very indifferent towards the suffering and frightened villagers but its all art of his "heroes journey." The film's colors weren't up to modern standards and the sound was slightly ahead of peoples mouths moving but in my opinion this simply adds to the effect of the movie. I have also recently watched the modern westerns 3:10 to Yuma and Appaloosa and while they were good films they were missing the grittiness of the old westerns, which add so much to these classic Eastwood films. Ennio Moricone (who wrote the score) did an outstanding job, his music emphasized the events as well as enhanced them.

This film was so absorbing that I found it almost impossible to look away, pause it or think of anything else for several hours afterwards. A fistful of dollars had it all comedy, action, drama, suspense it was even sad at times but it managed to pull off everything with class (unlike some more modern films that just throw them in where ever.) This was by far the greatest western film I have ever seen and is high on the list of my favorite films of all time. So if you haven't seen this film watch it, I can guarantee you will not be disappointed. It is the ultimate western but now I'm going to go watch For a few dollars more so I may change my mind.