The first half of this movie is a jumbled mess. There are voice-overs and flashbacks. Characters who come and go.
Maybe the director didn't know how to tell a story. Maybe some of the scenes he shot were ruined in the film lab and needed to be stitched together with narration, Oliver Stone-style.
In any event, I could hardly follow it.
Once Hill and Spencer come together again in the second half it's a lot more straightforward. I could still barely keep track of all the bad guys, but at least we know the story has been reduced "where's the gold hidden?"
This won't make anyone forget Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy with Clint Eastwood. But it's also not the worst spaghetti western ever made. It's basically a solid third or fourth feature in a Dusk-to-Dawn drive-in during the 70s.
Maybe the director didn't know how to tell a story. Maybe some of the scenes he shot were ruined in the film lab and needed to be stitched together with narration, Oliver Stone-style.
In any event, I could hardly follow it.
Once Hill and Spencer come together again in the second half it's a lot more straightforward. I could still barely keep track of all the bad guys, but at least we know the story has been reduced "where's the gold hidden?"
This won't make anyone forget Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy with Clint Eastwood. But it's also not the worst spaghetti western ever made. It's basically a solid third or fourth feature in a Dusk-to-Dawn drive-in during the 70s.