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For a Few Dollars More (Widescreen)

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There is nothing better than a good Clint Eastwood movie and a bowl of popcorn! This is a superb movie.

Again features two of the classic icons of the Spaghetti western, Eastwood and Van Cleef. Great acting, story and direction and very atmospheric, standout acting by the villain(he's a psycho slimeball but you can actually sympatize with him)....

This time for a few dollars more,the story revolves around a new bounty hunter called angel eyes,CLint returns and is not as comical as he was in the first.I think he's showing us that he has become more of a serious bounty hunter since he got messed up in fistful.LEE van Cleef is on a revenge mission while eastwood is playing angel eyes and the bandits for a few dollars more.It's worth owning,so is the score.thanks

Most people reading these reviews already know how great these Eastwood - Leone spaghetti westerns are, so I won't talk about the film itself here. I enjoyed this movie when I first bought it on VHS in 1989 but always hated the brittle, tinny sound, the opening theme music was excrutiating, when we all know that Morricone's soundtracks for these movies was excellent. So here it is in 2004 and I've got the $10 DVD and nothing has improved in the sound. Also the torture scene is missing a few seconds at the end where one of the gang asks Indio: "Why let 'em live?" and he replies: "All in due time". Hmm, let me make a wild guess here: MGM will finally fix this movie the way they should have for the first DVD but it will come out in a "Special Edition" 2-disc set with a bunch of extras for $25 (think The Great Escape here). You know those "Proof of Purchase" UPC's you see on the back of the DVD case? Just once I'd like to see MGM offer a rebate on a new "Special Edition" via a P.O.P. from an earlier DVD version. That's why I'm glad I don't have the first DVD of "The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly" already and that's why I won't yet buy John Wayne's "The Alamo". Unfortunately I already bought MGM's DVD of "It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World", another sub-standard MGM DVD release.

Along with The Good The Bad and The Ugly, and Once Upon A Time In The West, this is a western masterpiece and one of the best ever made. While not as polished as the above mentioned, For A Few Dollars More contains some of the best scenes in the history of westerns. Col. Mortimer gunning down Guy Callaway, Clint riding in to Aqua Caliente alone, and my favorite, Mortimer lighting a match on Wild's suspenders. Like GBU, I have seen this movie at least a hundred times, and have enjoyed it since I was a 7th grader. A classic western in the Italian style, boasts a superb soundtrack to boot.

This is a continuation of "fistful of dollars" and NOT a remake of "Sanjuro" like "Fistful.." was of "Yojimbo". This film is quite underated and I find it part of the series and in that fact it is just as good as fistful. The series is just that, a series with "Fistful of dollars" taking the reigns. "For a few dollars more" gives some character development and "The Good The Bad and the Ugly" gives best of both worlds and ends the series. All in all each film CAN be watched by it's lonesome but to get the fullness from the series they should be watched one after the other.

My mum said we had to watch this film and in return we watched "Tomorrow Never Dies". It was good. This is the only film in the trilogy I've seen. I watched the old '89 VHS edition, but it was good. Lee Van Cleef was Mum's favorite actor. It has great action, but I'm confused by the "R" rating. I would've given it a "PG", "PG-13" at most. I look forward to when I'm 18, buying the gift set with "A Fistful of Dollars", "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". Here's a pun, I was at Bruegger's in Pittsburgh, and they had a sign which said, the good, bagels, the bad, doughnuts, and the ugly, croissant. That'll rap it up. Adiós.

The print quality is awful, like they took a worn tape and dubbed it, speckles all over the place. And sound is out of synch by nearly a half second!! Didn't anyone watch this before they shoved it out on the market? Shameful. A total burn job.

bucking the trend of other reviews, i would say that this is the
weakest of the trilogy

GB&U has the epic scope and a monumental story spread over an
agreeably long film. fistful is a remake of yojimbo, but done
competently enough, and the freshness of the character and the
new style that it heralded, make it a memorable event

but a few dollars more suffers from a number of sequel problems;
clint's character is not evolved far in this; instead, the
character development is left for the van cleef character

of course, using a number of the same actors from the first
film always manages to confuse (given that this is a sequel

but the main problem with this episode in the series is that the
violence just becomes overdone. in place of the relatively
few actual shoot-outs in the first, this one has an almost
continual stream of people falling to the guns of the two leads.
the repetitiveness of it becomes tedious

but, as part of a truely novel series, this film is still worthy
of watching

For a Few Dollars More is the second in Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy and many believe the best of the three. The story centers around two bounty hunters who are hunting down a notorious outlaw band led by El Indio. The two unwilling partners work from the inside of the gang after a successful bank robbery in El Paso. This is one of the first buddy films that puts two very different people into a rough situation. This should be the perfect example of what a spaghetti western should be. The perfect anti-hero, a sneering older rival, a huge gang made up of spaghetti regulars, great gunfights, and another exceptional soundtrack by Ennio Morricone. How can you go wrong?

Clint Eastwood reprises his role as the Man with No Name although he is referred to as Manco in this role. The part is better than in a Fistful of Dollars and right up there with The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Lee Van Cleef plays the role of Colonel Mortimer, the bounty hunter who teams up with Eastwood to track down the notorious gang. There is a mystery about why he is hunting down the gang that is revealed late in the movie. Gina Maria Volonte must be mentioned as the sadistic, marijuana smoking gang leader El Indio. His villain is still one of the best in the spaghetti genre. The rest of the cast included Mara Krup, Luigi Pistilli, Mario Brega, Aldo Sambrell, Benito Stefanelli, Panos Papadopulos, and Klaus Kinski as the crazed hunchbacked gunfighter. The DVD is very good with an informative booklet included, widescreen presentation that looks great, and theatrical trailer all there. Well worth it for such a classic western!