Sergio Leone

*****
5/5

The concluding part of the 'Dollars' trilogy (that began in 1964 with A Fistful Of Dollars) is not only the most graphically violent of the three, but also surpasses the compassion and dark humour of its predecessors. There's nothing particularly new about a plotline involving burried treasure, but that's partly the point, as Leone is paying homage to the Hollywood western while revising its cherished traditions. He dexterously interweaves strands of communal and individual drama, which he throws into shocking relief against the bloody futility of the American Civil War. The genre had never witnessed such stylised violence, yet, while Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach unflinchingly accept it, Clint Eastwood can still spare some humanity for a dying soldier. All superbly scored by Ennio Morricone.
 

(1966)   
IT/SP   Colour   155 mins