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The best Western ever??
A rare film, that is thrid in a trilogy and yet far surpasses the two that went before. It's a superb and lengthy story of intrigue and deceit, that unlike, "Once Upon a Time in the West" matches Leone's unique operatic style with the actual story. Plot wise, we see Eastwood, Van Cleef, and Wallach double crossing each other over and over in the hunt for confederate gold that's hidden in a grave. The twist is that each man knows only a partial clue to the grave's where-abouts and must work with one of the others two to find it, culminating in one of the most memorable climaxes in movie history. Brilliant performances from the three leading players, biiter style and ironic, tongue-in-cheek humour from Leone, a meaty plot and script and one of the best music scores ever from Morricone, all combine to make one of the best Westerns of all time and one of my current 10 all time favourite movies.

The grandest of the spaghetti's, perhaps not the best
My criticism of this movie is trivial; this is a great movie, and in scope and story it is the greatest of the Western genre. It's more than a classic, it's an icon. Eli Wallach's character "Tuco" is probably the most interesting character in any western I can think of, and Lee van Cleef is a perfectly inscrutable villain. The filming is fantastic, and like the other Westerns of Sergio Leone, somehow these Italian-made films (also filmed in Spain) feel much more authentic than the Hollywood brand of western. The sweat, the dust, the cockroaches, the dialogue, etc. The Ennio Morricone soundtrack is phenomenal -- one of the most recognizeable soundtracks ever made.

The only flaws I find in this film have to do with the production. Leone had a much larger budget to film this one than he did for the others in the "Clint Trilogy" and in some parts the money overtakes the film and gives it a slicker feel than, say, the grittiness of "A Fistful of Dollars." Clint trades in his run-down pancho for a pricy-looking duster, and the rebel choir (in the cavalry scenes) is overorchestrated (sounds recorded in an orchestra pit). Little details like that tend to intrude with a Hollywood feel now and then.

Not to say that Leone wasted his big budget. The Civil War scenes are great, the ending is tremendous, and scant a wasted moment in this nearly 4-hour film. Among Spaghetti Westerns I rank this film second to "A Fistful of Dollars," but honestly the best Spaghetti Western is whichever one you happen to be watching.

Trivia note: Leone plants a clue in this film to tell us it is a "prequel" to the other two "Dollar" movies, even though it was filmed after the other two. Look for the clue after the Civil War "bridge" scene...

The coolest western!!!.............Great Music Score!
In my opinion as well, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is the all time, ultimate western you'll ever see. Clint Eastwood turns in a top notch performance as "the Man with No Name" in the third of Sergio Leone's "Man with No Name" trilogy of spagetti westerns shot over in Spain with Eastwood as the main star of them all.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, starts when a mysterious stranger, played by Eastwood roams the western frontier. He has no family, no companions, and no home, until he meets two strangers, Tuco, played by Eli Wallach, and Angel Eyes played by Lee Van Cleef, who are just as ruthless, deadly, mean looking, and tough as he is. Yet beside all of this, the 3 men join forces to track down a fortune of $200,000.00 dollars, in gold coins. It won't be easy, they don't trust each, making it even tougher, and more deadlier for the most part. It even gets harder, tougher, and deadlier, when the three are thrown the mist of the bloodly American Civil War that's taking hundreds of lives and tearing up the land around them. When they finally get to the graveyard where the gold is buried, they must chose as to who will get the gold first and who is the fastest with a gun.
This movie has the greatest musical score that should have got an Oscar for Best Musical Score. If you want a bigger than life western, give this one a try. I think it's one of the coolest westerns ever made. Haven't got the DVD yet.

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