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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo (AKA The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly)

1966

Sergio Leone

Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Eli Wallach, Aldo Giuffrè ...

8.2

67,906

Western First we are introduced to the Ugly, Tuco (Eli Wallach), who leaps through a window after killing the men who were out to get him. Then there is the Bad, Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef), a mercenary who kills a man to find out the whereabouts of a large sum of gold; he then kills the man who employed him. Finally we see the Good (Clint Eastwood), referred to as 'Blondie'. He captures Tuco and turns him into the authorities for the reward, ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Leone cares not at all about the practical or the plausible, and builds his great film on the rubbish of Western movie cliches, using style to elevate dreck into art (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	John Naughton Empire	"Leone makes a mockery of any conception of good and evil (...) [He] fashioned a worthy conclusion to his trilogy"	POS
United States	Variety	"Leone’s visual sense is as strong as ever (...) Unfortunately, he allows several excursions into laughably sentimental characterization, and his three actors (especially Wallach) overplay to the point of absurdity."	NEU
United States	Eric Henderson Slant	"[It] is surely one of the most compelling validations of the western genre’s most elemental touchstones (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Luke Buckmaster BBC	"If any one film could crystallise the best parts of the spaghetti western (...) this would be it."	POS
United States	Dave Kehr Chicago Reader	"Comic, cynical, inexplicably moving epic spaghetti western"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"[A] grisly-brilliant story (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Time	"'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'—a title that might serve as the film's own capsule review."	NEU

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