Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda) is an old gunslinger who is reputed to be the fastest. Nobody (Terence Hill) follows the legendary killer and wants him to face off against a 150 men strong Wild Bunch gang singlehanded. The Wild Bunch are a gang of bandits who fight for a mastermind who wants Beauregard dead.
This starts off very slowly. If this didn't have Sergio Leone's name attached to it, I might have abandoned it early on. Henry Fonda doesn't strike me as the hardened killer type. He's too much of a nice guy. Terence Hill doesn't have great individual persona. He's playing the character as a jokester, but it never actually gets to be funny. He's a strange character. Then the movie gets strange when they get to the saloon.
There is the weird slap fight in the bar. I can safely say that I have never seen such a thing especially in a spaghetti western. This is a slapstick spaghetti western. It's definitely unique. Even the music is a strange concoction of weird effects with classic spaghetti western music. It's as if the movie is mocking the genre itself, but it's not good enough to be a parody.
This starts off very slowly. If this didn't have Sergio Leone's name attached to it, I might have abandoned it early on. Henry Fonda doesn't strike me as the hardened killer type. He's too much of a nice guy. Terence Hill doesn't have great individual persona. He's playing the character as a jokester, but it never actually gets to be funny. He's a strange character. Then the movie gets strange when they get to the saloon.
There is the weird slap fight in the bar. I can safely say that I have never seen such a thing especially in a spaghetti western. This is a slapstick spaghetti western. It's definitely unique. Even the music is a strange concoction of weird effects with classic spaghetti western music. It's as if the movie is mocking the genre itself, but it's not good enough to be a parody.