The Good The Bad And The Ugly (1966) Review

The Good The Bad And The Ugly (1966) is directed by Sergio Leon, the man who also directed A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965). The concept of The Good The Bad And The Ugly is there are three men, you got The Good played by Clint Eastwood, The Bad played by Lee Van Cleef, and you got The Ugly played by Eli Wallach. The Bad, who in the film is called Sentenza wants to find a man called Bill Carson who has hidden 200,000 coins, and now Sentenza is tracking him down. But The Good called Blondie and The Ugly called Tuco have stumbled their way to finding out where the 200,000 coins are and are finding the money as well.

I thought the movie was going to be 3 hours of gun slinging action, with blood spurting out and packed shoot outs but there isn't as many as I thought, you do get the gun slinging shootouts but they make you wait for them, releasing them for the right moment. And what this does it makes the shootouts more special than it just being many shoot outs that don’t have any meaning to them. The ones that you see have been put in the film for a reason, not for the sake of making cool action scenes. I can only remember 3 shoot-out scenes, and in those three shoot-out scenes I learned a lot about the main characters especially Clint Eastwood's character, because in those three shootouts he was the cool figure that does not panic, he’s the one that lets the gun do the talking.

The film focuses on Blondie and Tuco’s time together while travelling to the 200,000, coins, and the time we see, we get to see the characters dispute and bond with each other. Clint Eastwood was brilliant in the film, the way he acts brings the film together because he is such a badass that you cannot take your eyes of him, he just oozes confidence. And his partner in crime Eli Wallach (Ugly) also captivates you with his performance because for me he is more bad than Lee Van Cleef (who plays The Bad). We see Tuco torture Clint Eastwood's character, we see him steal from innocent people, and we also hear about the crimes he has committed, which is sort of a shame because this meant that Sentenza Van Cleef character was underwhelming and wasn't as bad as he is perceived in the film.

Being nearly 3 hours long, I did feel the film could have been shorter especially for one scene where I did not know why they were doing this. It was the scene where they blew up the bridge, I still do not know why they had to do this, I thought they had to cross the bridge but yet they blew it up. But I still found the film really enjoyable and did not get bored once because I was so engrossed by the actors performance and some of the scenes were tense, making it impossible to leave my eyes of the screen. You guys have to watch this, it is a true western classic and it deserves a rating of 8.5/10