By this point in his career director Sergio Leone had many profitable hits in America and was getting bigger budgets to work with and you can tell by the massive scale of some of the battles that take place and the gigantic explosions that accompany them in this that most of what he had ended up on the screen. While this isn't anywhere near my favorite Leone western(I can't help but feel that it could have been cast better, the story itself is never all that engaging to me as some of his better known spags and it's a bit overly wacky at times(although this might be a point you could make about most of Leone's works)) it's still an amazingly well made film to look at topped only by ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST for it's beautiful cinematography. A little long in spots with most cuts of this being well over 2 hours long but still worth watching if you're a film fan of any sort and like big spectacles. AKA A FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE
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