The Movie For A Few Dollars More Reviewed
Leone’s Dollars Trilogy is without a doubt one of the all time classic series when it comes to all out action, suspense and, well, coolness. The film in the series that is considered a “Great Film” would have to be The Good the Bad and the Ugly, but the absolute coolest of the series is, without a doubt, For a Few Dollars More. Maybe not the best, but certainly the most fun of the entire trilogy, and definitely one to put on your queue the next time you sign into your movie download service.
The movie is really defined by all the little cool moments. While The Good the Bad and the Ugly was really defined by Eli Wallach’s incredible performance as the complex, dirty and amoral character of Tuco, and Fistful of Dollars was the one that really started the whole genre off and defined its style, For a Few Dollars More is the one with all the coolest stuff, like Lee Van Cleef browsing through his selection of dozens of guns whenever he needs to shoot someone, or Clint Eastwood beating a guy up with just one hand.
See, he uses a pocket watch every time he kills someone. It’s a musical pocket watch, so he winds it up and lets it play while staring down his adversary. When the music comes to a stop… He draws and fires. Definitely a great villainous ritual for any western baddie to commit to.
Cleef and Eastwood make a great team as the heroes. Cleef plays Colonel Mortimer, a former Civil War hero turned bounty hunter, while Eastwood plays, again, the Man With No Name. This film is, chronologically within the world of the film, the final act, even though it was released second (The Good the Bad and the Ugly serves as a prequel to Fistful of Dollars), and Eastwood has had enough violence and wants to retire, but still plays the Kid role to Cleef’s older, wiser bounty hunter.
The two have one of the all time best Man Movie bonding scenes, shooting each other’s hats off of their respective heads in an effort to impress and intimidate one another.
No other Spaghetti Western uses music quite as interestingly as this one. The final showdown utilizes the musical pocket watch, and an orchestrated version of the melody it plays to build up an incredible amount of tension, so by the time someone finally fires a gun, you’ll be crazy with anticipation and begging them to just get it over with already so you can stop clutching your fists.
Sergio Leone has made some of the greatest contributions to film, and his career was cut sadly short just before Stalingrad, the WWII film which might have been his Magnum Opus.
The one thing missing is perhaps Eli Wallach. There aren’t really any characters in the film with the depth and complex humanity of Tuco in The Good the Bad and the Ugly, but the film is certainly the most fun film of the trilogy.
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