The Big Gundown (La resa dei conti)

Some days, you wake up and say, "I need Lee Van Cleef in my life at this moment." And so you put on the latest Spaghetti/Zapata Western that you acquired and you let the sunrise with Van Cleef gunning down people with remarkable speed and appreciate the film's depiction of…

Sally Jane Black

"You're too damn smart to be a Senator." The violent, impulsive lawman realizes that he is an unwitting tool of power and capital; the laws themselves (and who they apply to) determined based on the ease with which they provide the service of removing inconvenient groups…

Josh Lewis

“you don’t like justice, you like revenge.” I went in blank, and that was perfect – I got completely blindsided. What I expected to be a straight spaghetti western shootout, a big gundown frankly, turned into something far richer and more epic. It keeps shifting – violent…

Tim Fehrenbach

Action! - Spaghetti alla Sergio: Le grandi avventure di Sollima Talk about a film that made me reevaluate my previous opinion and ponder how I could have given it such a low score. Even though Van Cleef had been in the industry and the Western genre for decades, I would…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

The man who has no masters is beholden only to the faults of his own sins in Sergio Sollima’s “The Big Gundown.” In a time of violence brought from constant terrorist attacks and assassinations from extreme right and left radicals, Italian spaghetti Westerns conjured up…

theriverjordan

One of Morricone’s finest works! Given that it’s my first non-Leone spaghetti western, it’s interesting separating the stylings of the genre from Leone’s personal style. While it has quite a bit in common with Leone, it doesn’t have his flair and signature close-ups. That…

Ethan Colburn

*Uncut version with original Italian dubbing* La Resa dei Conti has it all, including prior expectations, and then surpasses its required fan bill: ✓One of the top 3 best soundtracks of the Italian subgenre ✓One of the best openings ever designed by men ✓One of the…

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋

Stefano Sollima's dad borrowing from 3:10 to Yuma for a spaghetti western gem released the same year as The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly and Corbucci's Django, starring Lee Van Cleef with a Morricone score to boot. The ease with which we can see these kinds of movies…

Sean Fennessey

Stroheim afastado para dar lugar a filmes idiotas que custam milhões de dólares é o fato mais pessimista para a futura história do cinema. - Sergio Sollima Sollima deslocado do cinema industrial para a televisão, dando lugar à proliferação de sub-produtos que serviram…

Bruno Andrade