Director: Sergio Leone
Year: 1964
Stars: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volonte, Wolfgang Lukschy, Sieghardt Rupp
Having watched Pale Rider, an ‘80s cowboy movie starring and directed by Clint Eastwood, in the not-too-distant past, I was quite keen to watch A Fistful of Dollars. It’s one of Sergio Leone’s– and Clint Eastwood’s- more famous Western movies from the ‘60s, and I was expecting to quite enjoy it.
Like many Clint cowboy movies, Eastwood plays something of a loner who turns up in a town and causes havoc. Unlike Preacher (Eastwood's role in Pale Rider), he’s not a complete hero here – more of an anti-hero. Joe (Eastwood) is essentially a good guy (he helps a family escape the law of the town), but (and if you know anything about Westerns this shouldn’t come as much of a surprise) most people end up dead- and this is mostly due to Joe.
A Fistful of Dollars didn’t really feel like it had anything new or innovative in it. In fairness, this might be due to the fact that it is a movie from the ‘60s, and there have been a lot of copy-cat movies since. But for me, it all just felt a little, well, ordinary.
Rating: 2.5 out of 5
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