The Dollars Trilogy
Reviews of The Dollars Trilogy
Praise for A Fistful of Dollars
"This is a hard-hitting item, ably directed, splendidly lensed, neatly acted, which has all the ingredients wanted by action fans and then some." - Variety Staff, Variety Magazine
"... this was a new kind of western: cynical, violent, stylish, and austere, playing out in a landscape of endless deserts and clapboard towns infested with gunmen."- Sean Akmaker, Stream on Demand
"Once in a great while a western comes along that breaks new ground and becomes a classic of the genre."- Time Staff, Time Magazine
Praise for For a Few Dollars More
"Here is a gloriously greasy, sweaty, hairy, bloody and violent Western. It is delicious." - Roger Ebert, Sun Times
"A tremendously good sequel, on top of being a tremendously good movie in and of itself - surely the best Italian Western at the time of its release."- Tom Brayton, Antagony and Ecstasy
"By introducing the character of Mortimer, Leone is able to counterpoint Eastwood's cold, amoral gunslinger with a man who has a past and a purpose."- TV Guide
Praise for The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
"It still looks a treat and a bold and largely successful attempt to recast the traditions of the genre in a new, sometimes critical, almost operatic way." - Derek Malcolm, London Evening Standard
"When Ennio Morricone's score kicks in and Leone's editing picks up, our everyday problems fade away like a cowboy riding off into the sunset."- Asher Luberto, L.A. Weekly
"The defining spaghetti western pits a charismatic Clint Eastwood against partner and nemesis Eli Wallach and perpetual enemy Lee Van Cleef."- Wesley Lovell, Cinema Sight