“The leading icon of a generation” (Roger Ebert), Academy Award(r) winner* Clint Eastwood continues his trademark role as the legendary “Man With No Name” in this second installment of the famous Sergio Leone trilogy. Scripted by Luciano Vincenzoni and featuring Ennio Morricone’s haunting musical score, For A Few Dollars More is a modern classicone of the greatest Westerns evermade. Eastwood is a keen-eyed, quick-witted bounty hunter on the bloody trail of Indio, the territory’s most treacherous bandit. But his ruthless rival, Colonel Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef, High Noon), is determined to bring Indio in first…dead or alive! Failing to capture their preyor eliminate each otherthe two are left with only one option: team up, or face certain death atthe hands of Indio and his band of murderous outlaws.A ringing instance of a sequel far outstripping its predecessor, Sergio Leone’s For a Few Dollars More takes the lethal antihero from A Fistful of Dollars, gives him both a rival and an adversary worthy of sharing a gun-blazing corrida, and ratchets up the stylization to something approaching grandeur. This time the Man with No Name (Clint Eastwood) is a bounty hunter whose desert Southwest killing ground is suddenly crowded by the presence of an older, black-clad shootist (Lee Van Cleef). Individually and together, they terminate sundry grotesques while closing in on their biggest quarry, a memorably insane bandit called El Indio (Gian Maria Volonté is brilliant). There’s just enough plot to imbue Van Cleef with genuine mystery, a dark avenging angel from a lost past whose pull would supply the emotional core of Leone’s later masterworks Once upon a Time in the West and Once upon a Time in America. Leone’s bravura widescreen compositions are breathtaking, and Ennio Morricone’s music score–tinged with lunatic religiosity–is his first great one. –Richard T. Jameson
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March 20, 2010
#1
They don’t come much worse than this one. A few interesting scenes but as usual with Leone this thing drags and drags. And his bad guys are so despicable and unclean they render themselves unwatchable. Do yourself a favor….Spoiler alert: and fast forward to the final scene, skip the rest of this turkey. Clint’s cool as hell but even he can’t carry this grunt-n-squintathon. Wasn’t very popular in the 60′s, and doesn’t translate at all now.
March 20, 2010
#2
3 1/2 stars is good enough for this film. The first “Fistful of Dollars” film was about the same good. Now, this one I have seen in the Collector’s Edition: the dvd quality is all right. The extras are nothing worth the extra cost. But the movie just isn’t that great. The long and slow scenes are not what bothers me. I know it’s Leone’s style, and I appreciate it. But the story is not that interesting. Beyond Van Cleef and Eastwood there’s not much else to dig for.
I consider it miles away from Sergio Leone’s “The good, the bad, and the ugly”, or his “Once upon a time in the West”. Not bad, but not great. It’s just a very particular style that Leone has, and that some people -I think- overestimate. In the dollars series it doesn’t work that well.
March 20, 2010
#3
This is the only Sergio Leone film released in America worth your time, and the attraction has nothing to do with anything Leone put in it. The script is the same kind of brainless, illogical mishmash Sergio brewed all his swill from. It’s Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef who salvage the whole thing. By the mid-60′s these two had put in a decade and a half in the Hollywood studio system and bring every bit of that long experience to their scenes together. They have economy and humor that’s great to watch, even in this tripe.
March 20, 2010
#4
Just received the German 4 disc digipak. GOOD NEWS. played 10 mins of both – no problems. Menus are all in English (or German) all the extra’s on the English R2 SE’s are here except for the photo gallery.
The sound is very good and the restored english mono is BETTER than the MGM 5.1 also on here with the commentary and German mono. The 5.1 sounds muddled compared to the mono which is strong and has good clarity and separation.
Picture. No problems I could see on my 6ft screen via InFocus 5700 projector from an Arcam FMJ-DV29 DVD player. Player is set to progressive playback and did not have to change anything.
Only watched first 10mins of each but doing A-B comparisons with the English R2 MGM SE’s the German ones are noticeably better, they look less washed out, contrast is not set so high and colours are a lot more pronounced especially on Fistful, which is why I bought this set, but also on Few Dollars More as well.
They are also cleaned up a bit more as well as most importantly Few Dollars More is at last the full version, which no MGM DVD is worldwide……
March 20, 2010
#5
I REALLY like films with restored footage. The Good, The, Bad, and the Ugly had about 17 minutes or so. ‘DAS BOOT’ must hold some kind of record at over 60 minutes. Whan y’all get the new 2 disc DVD set, please add a review about how many minutes were put back in. NO point in buying it if there is no extra footage. THANKS!