Wall

Taking all the grit and character complexities of the first and upping the ante this film was a worthy sequel to the first. Creating more of a sense of back story and drawing out the development helped. Once again amazing music.

msmichel

14Dec11

Leone after the success of 'fistful' worked on a much bigger canvas on this picture and discovered his voice. The use of extreme closeup and perspective shot, the majestic use of music and the comradeship of men. Casting of Lee Van Cleef was most inspired and reinvented his career the way the previous film did for Eastwood. Many classic sequences especially the final shoot out. Highly influential.

Gerald

27Sep11

Heist is right

Posterocalypse

6Sep11

Brilliant stuff! I could watch Van Cleef and Eastwood grate cheese and be enthralled.

Erik Gregersen

18Aug11

Or, Leone, Morricone, Van Cleef, and Eastwood taking off into the stratosphere. So much great stuff here. "This train will stop at Tucumcari." The organ bursting into the soundtrack during a showdown. The last 10 minutes are perfect, the beginning of the end for the Western.

thay

18Jul11

Brilliant, I don't know why it took so long for me to watch this movie. I used to think westerns were boring... How is that even possible?!

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Alex

10Jul11

Also my fav of the trilogy, the end is epic

Beneezy

1Jun11

Lee Van Cleef's scary good! However, Clint's a one bad ass motherfucker!

Frankster85

8May11

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Nathan Demers

19Mar11

nd

Graveyard Poet

18Mar11

My favorite of the Man With No Name trilogy. The opium memories of Lee Van Cleef's sister's death and the final duel with the lullably music box melody from the locket watch is more muted, yet also more personal, than Good, Bad, Ugly.

Kristian Ramsden

11Dec10

This is such a great improvement on A Fistful of Dollars. Quite staggeringly so.

Th MZA

15Aug10

As a sequence of alliances, betrayals, and their resulting equilibria, FAFDM would make excellent fodder for a lecture on game theory; but it's probably best enjoyed as a vehicle for widescreen showdowns, serious faces, sublimated pain, and trick shooting. Leone uses a gauzy flashback to convey psychosexual trauma, a device he would use again to weirder effect in Duck, You Sucker. Faster, funnier, better than AFOD.

Publius

3Aug10

In my opinion, the best of the Dollars trilogy. The climax is so good it almost brings tears to my eyes - not because it is sad or heart wrenching, but because it is incredibly powerful.

Silenzio

20Jun10

Fistful of dollars was already agreat film but each dollars film was better than the previous one. Indio is such a fantastic character and while van cleef gives his best performance and has great chemistry with Eastwood Volonte' threatens to steal this one. Once upon a time in the West is Leones most ambitious (ok Once upon a time in america too) and impressive film though in my opinion.