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- 1967
- Approved
- United Artists
- 2 h 41 m
- 1967
- Approved
- United Artists
- 2 h 41 m
Summary For three men the Civil War wasn't hell... it was practice! Clint Eastwood returns as "The Man with No Name," this time teaming with two gunslingers (Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach) to pursue a cache of $200,000 and letting no one, not even warring factions in a civil war, stand in their way. [MGM]
Directed By: Sergio Leone
- 1967
- Approved
- United Artists
- 2 h 41 m
- 1967
- Approved
- United Artists
- 2 h 41 m
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
90
8.8
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Summary For three men the Civil War wasn't hell... it was practice! Clint Eastwood returns as "The Man with No Name," this time teaming with two gunslingers (Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach) to pursue a cache of $200,000 and letting no one, not even warring factions in a civil war, stand in their way. [MGM]
Directed By: Sergio Leone
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
90
86% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
14% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
90
86% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
14% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Gorgeously stoic art film.
There are two kinds of people, my friend. Those who love Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and those who resist the machismo and gallows humor of what is arguably the definitive spaghetti western.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 705 User Ratings
8.8
91% Positive
644 Ratings
644 Ratings
2% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
7% Negative
47 Ratings
47 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 705 User Ratings
8.8
91% Positive
644 Ratings
644 Ratings
2% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
7% Negative
47 Ratings
47 Ratings
A great film. Must watch.
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This is a f**king amazing movie. I mean, seriously amazing. The acting performances are all solid from the 3 lead characters. The story is interesting and worth watching, and it even manages its long runtime really well. Sergio Leone is an amazing director and I recommend other movies like Once Upon a Time trilogy and the other Dollar Trilogy movies. Let's also not forget to mention the soul of the movie, Ennio Morricone's score. I'm listening to it right now as I write this. That's just how good it is.
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An improbable masterpiece -- a bizarre mixture of grandly operatic visuals, grim brutality and sordid violence that keeps wrenching you from one extreme to the other.
Though ordained from the beginning, the three-way showdown that climaxes the film is tense and thoroughly astonishing.
A massive, many-faceted film that continues to hold up, viewing after viewing.
All told, and in giant widescreen, it's only blood-red adolescent fun, but it blooms like Douglas Sirk with a Gatling gun compared to the teenage demographic's current fare. Matrix, schmatrix: This is the season's supreme party movie.
A curious amalgam of the visually striking, the dramatically feeble and the offensively sadistic.
Still a good Western tale and the casting was awesome, but that music score added an extra layer of magic to it all.
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I really couldn't understand most of the reviews here that place this film as a great western or even the best ever for some fans. In my opinion this is just a watchable and good western, but not much more than that.
I think the only possible explanation would be that IMDb reviewers consider "spaghetti" westerns a sub-genre within the western genre. If that is so, "The Good, The Bad and the Ugly" would probably stand among the best (if not the best)in the "spaghetti" westerns ranking. But the point is that in my opinion there are no sub-genres within the western genre. So I analyze this film just for what it is: a western film.
In such terms, this film has its moments, fine open-wide outdoor locations, good action gunfights (though hardly believable) and an acceptable plot. Good acting too mainly in Eli Wallach's Tuco.
But what really demerits this movie is its incredibly unnecessary overrun; there's no way the story can stand almost 3 hours in duration and so the development is definitely slow. Overruning has always been a characteristic of director Sergio Leone; he sort of engages madly with some sequences and he goes on and on and on at it (the final duel here is an example with all those unnecessary close shots in the men's faces and eyes). Another clear sample of what I'm saying was the incredibly long -and even boring- opening sequence of "Once Upon a Time in the West", where Leone takes more than 10 minutes in the opening sequence where three gunmen are waiting for Charles Bronson at a train station.
Come on guys, let's face it. "Spaghetti" westerns are "B" movies and even if at the very start they could have seemed sort of original and somehow enjoyable, once you take an honest critical look at them they're not great films but just good a few of them but no more than that. Sorry again.
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Not boring. One to be watched once or twice in a life, but people are definitively more clever, sensitive and aware of the psychological ropes used at that time nowadays.
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The Good the Bad and the Ugly.
How about The Bad Actor the Generic Goofy Villain and the Only Likable Character would be the best words to describe this film. The Good the Bad and the Ugly is a classic of it's time and influential in the Western genre. However it is far from the best Western movie and is more suited to be watched on a airplane when people are about to vomit. It is overly long, overbearing and pretentious. The main character is cool looking but lacks the depth that other better protagonists have like Django Freeman from Django Unchained and Marquis Warren from The Hateful Eight. The Man with no Name is a flat, uninteresting, frivolous character who has the personalty of a run down car. The Man with no Name is more of a wizard with magic sharpshooting skills than an actually cowboy. Clint Eastwood is a sub par actor at best and his directing is good but he has yet to actually make a good script that would make his films a bit more tolerable.
Oh and if any old time critics or hardcore Eastwood fans got a problem with my review, they can shove their pompous opinions up their ass and **** somewhere else. Sometimes people say you have to watch a movie twice to get it but two hours and a half of boring bullcrap is enough for me.
Opinions are subjective and that word is kryptonite for film critics.
Django Unchained is the best western of all time, so **** on that.
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Awards
Online Film & Television Association
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Laurel Awards
• 1 Nomination
DVD Exclusive Awards
• 1 Nomination
