For A Few Dollars More

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Summary: For a Few Dollars More is money
Review: First watch "A Fistfull of Dollars" then watch this. Not quite as good as the first but very entertaining. Eastwood is such a tough guy. Van Cleef isn't bad either.

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Summary: Fun western with plenty of gunplay!
Review: A good sequel to Fist full of Dollars, a must see for all Clint fans

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Summary: movie
Review: For sure one of the best western ever.Eastwood like we like him.The music by Ennio Morricone is just great.Short a masterpiece Oliver Gruttner

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Summary: my favorite spaghtti western
Review: that is one of my favorite movie , since i'm a baby boomer that reminds me of my youth.....

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Summary: MGM gets a few dollars more from me
Review: Most people reading these reviews already know how great these Eastwood - Leone spaghetti westerns are, so I won't talk about the film itself here. I enjoyed this movie when I first bought it on VHS in 1989 but always hated the brittle, tinny sound, the opening theme music was excrutiating, when we all know that Morricone's soundtracks for these movies was excellent. So here it is in 2004 and I've got the $10 DVD and nothing has improved in the sound. Hmm, let me make a wild guess here: MGM will finally fix this movie the way they should have for the first DVD but it will come out in a "Special Edition" 2-disc set with a bunch of extras for $25 (think The Great Escape here). You know those "Proof of Purchase" UPC's you see on the back of the DVD case? Just once I'd like to see MGM offer a rebate on a new "Special Edition" via a P.O.P. from an earlier DVD version. That's why I'm glad I don't have the first DVD of "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" already and that's why I won't yet buy John Wayne's "The Alamo". Unfortunately I already bought MGM's DVD of "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", another sub-standard MGM DVD release.

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Summary: great story
Review: This time for a few dollars more,the story revolves around a new bounty hunter called angel eyes,CLint returns and is not as comical as he was in the first.I think he's showing us that he has become more of a serious bounty hunter since he got messed up in fistful.LEE van Cleef is on a revenge mission while eastwood is playing angel eyes and the bandits for a few dollars more.It's worth owning,so is the score.thanks

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Summary: One of the best spaghetti westerns ever, but flawed DVD!!!
Review: The DVD video transfer is relatively crisp on a wide-screen format. Unfortunately, I noticed that about a good 30 seconds of the movie have been cut off! The part after Manco and Mortimer are beaten up by Indio's men, there is a quick jump to Indio saying: "What will the sheriff think?" The DVD does not have the dialogue before that where one of the henchmen says: "Why let them live? and Indio says: "All things at the right time", followed by a "What do you mean". So either this scene has been deleted or my DVD skips. I highly doubt it however, since there are no physical indications of damage on the back of the DVD.

Still, this incredible spaghetti western surpasses classics such as "Once Upon a Time in the West" (since Bronson is no Eastwood) and is matched perhaps by only "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" (thanks to Wallach stealing the show!).


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Summary: Another totally Sweet Spaghetti Western!!!
Review: This is probably the least well Known of Eastwood's "Man with no name" Trilogy. All of which are directed by Sergio Leone and all of which have a totally awesome score provided by Ennio Morricone. This movie like the other two is totally awesome. This movie is notable for the Character of the Colonel portrayed by Lee Van Cleef, and the main bad guy "El Indio"which Gian Maria Volonte plays with great awesomeness. Involved with these two characters is the interesting subplot of the Colonel's murdered sister(who killed herself while being raped by the main bad guy), and the musical pocketwatches associated with that event(The Colonel and Indio have one, and Indio uses his in duels). Anyway this movie is totally sweet.

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Summary: The most underrated of the "Dollars" trilogy films
Review: "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" is arguably the finest Western ever made (and equally likely to be the best collaboration between then-relatively unknown Clint Eastwood and epic director Sergio Leone), and "A Fistfull of Dollars" gets the credit for being the film that radically reinvented the American Western movie, but frequently overlooked by the casual movie buff is the middle child of the trio, "For a Few Dollars More".

The title would indicate that this should be a sequel to "...Fistfull...", but that isn't really the case. We still have Clint Eastwood playing "The Man With No Name" (however, just as his character was called "Joe" in "...Fistfull..." and "Blondie" in "The Good, the bad...", he is referred to as "Manco" in this movie), with the same rawhide vest, same serape and bolero hat, and of course the same suint and cheroot, the only thing that Eastwood's character has in common with those he plays in the other films is his fashion sense and opportunistic approach to violence.

In "For a Few...", we find Eastwood as a self-employed bounty hunter who has a particularly well-armed and somewhat more experienced rival (Col. Randolph Mortimer of Carolina, played by Lee van Cleef) who are both tracking the same gang of bandits (led by El Indio, portrayed by returning Leone favorite Gian Maria Volante, who is as equally skilled with a gun as he is in planning bank heists...and is also crazier than a $h!thouse rat). After stepping on each other's toes (literally), they form an alliance out of necessity to try to defeat the gang from the inside out.

Think of everything that makes a Sergio Leone movie great -particularly the Westerns- ...the dramatic Ennio Morricone soundtrack, the close-ups that enable you to count the pores in the actors' faces, the intense face-offs that bring scenes to a climax...it's all here, and it's all done in at least an impressive fashion as in the two other better-known entries in the "Dollars" series. Unless you're a Western fan, you may not be as familiar with this movie as you are the others (if only by reputation); see "For a Few Dollars More" and understand that their reputation is well-earned and that this overlooked gem is every bit as good if not better.

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Summary: Remarkable, but Rather Barren, Desert Landscape
Review: Clint Eastwood and Lee van Cleef are bounty hunters Gian Maria Volonte is EL Indio, the baddie they are out to net as he plans a heist on the supposedly impregnable Bank of El Paso.

It is of course the second of the mighty dollars trilogy. So of course it looks fantastic and has a wonderful score by Morricone. And some unforgettably classic moments, most notably the great scene where Eastwood and van Cleef, meeting and sizing each other up, take it in turns to shoot at each others headwear. But for me it's the low point of this brilliant trilogy. The plot is too simple, the characters too shallow, to really carry 130 minutes of film. The result drags. Eastwood and van Cleef are cool all right but they're scarcely people: even the nameless hero of `Fistful' had infinitely more in the way of humanity. And Volonte contributes leadership to a frankly boring gang of villains who go in for a great deal in the way of evil laughter but there's very little more to it. We know Eastwood and van Cleef will wipe this lot out utterly effortlessly and I found it a long wait for them to get on with it and do so.