Once Upon a Time in the West (re-release)
Your Score
0
out of 10
User Score
9.2
out of 10
Universal acclaim- based on 47 Ratings
- Starring: Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda
- Summary: Sergio Leone's monumental epic is as big as its Monument Valley locations, as grand as its fine, distinguished cast, as tough and bawdy as every kid imagines the Old West. (Paramount)
- Director: Sergio Leone
- Genre(s): Western
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 6 out of 8
-
Mixed: 2 out of 8
-
Negative: 0 out of 8
-
100Sergio Leone's masterpiece. In Once Upon a Time in the West, Leone pulls together all the themes, characterizations, visuals, humor, and musical experiments of the three "Dollars" films and comes up with a true epic western. It is a stunning, operatic film of breadth, detail, and stature that deserves to be considered among the greatest westerns ever made. (Review of Original Release)
-
100An additional treat is seeing Hollywood good guy Henry Fonda playing one of the nastiest curs in the West. Once Upon a Time in the West is one of the great films in cinema history. (8/30/2000 Review)
-
Akira Kurosawa once said that Toshiro Mifune could give him in three feet of film the emotion any other actor would take 10 to deliver, but in a single flash of Fonda's electric turquoise orbs, Leone (Kurosawa's first and sincerest flatterer-imitator) managed to say as much about John Ford, the devil, and the corruptions of the Way Out Western world as the genre ever would.
-
60The biggest, longest, most expensive Leone Western to date, and, in many ways, the most absurd... Granting the fact that it is quite bad, Once Upon the Time in the West is almost always interesting, wobbling, as it does, between being an epic lampoon and a serious hommage to the men who created the dreams of Leone's childhood. (Review of Original Release)
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 7 out of 8
-
Mixed: 1 out of 8
-
Negative: 0 out of 8
-
GeorgeM.10
-
-
RonanC.10
-
-
[Anonymous]10As good as movies -- of any genre -- get.
-
-
YogaP4
-
