Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Dotbankey A lot of fun.

BallWubba Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

TankGuy In revolutionary Mexico, a bandit army under the grandiose El Chuncho ambush a government train. A mysterious American named Bill Tate kills the driver before bringing the train to a halt, thus gaining El Chuncho's trust. Bill joins the gang and it isn't long before he and El Chuncho are like brothers. He aids the bandits in attacking the federales and raiding their armouries, with El Chuncho intending to sell the rifles to bandit chief General Elias. However Bill has an ulterior motive, and why does he carry on his person a golden bullet...Steeped in Marxist philosophy, Damiano Damiani's revered Zapatafest is a critique of U.S involvement in the affairs of third world countries. With the Mexican revolution as his canvas, Damiani analyses and deconstructs the ideology behind social revolution and how it can be influenced and corrupted by both violence and greed. Gian Maria Volonte is on delightfully charismatic from to the point where he almost outdoes his performances in the Dollars films. Lou Castel and Martine Beswick were superb too and the great Klaus Kinski gave a brilliant turn as the bloodthirsty Priest. The bodycount is deliciously high and the action scenes certainly do not disappoint.It's easy to see why this film is held in high regard among Spaghetti western aficionados. A fantastic effort from Damiani. 9/10

Bezenby Yet another Spaghetti Western full of double crosses, tenuous alliances, and stubbly greasy looking fellows laughing at nothing. This one has Klaus Kinski, and he's kind of doing a Kinski (i.e He's in the film sort of but seems to come and go as he pleases).During a train robbery where Gian Marie Volonte is obtaining guns from the Mexican Army, he meets a sneaky gringo who wants to join his gang. Being a sucker, Volonte lets him in, and from then on out starts a kind of road trip/bromance with the guy. For the record Klaus is Volonte's brother somehow even though...you know..Kinski looks like a blonde goblin.After various encounter with the army and the obtaining of a machine gun, things settle down for a game of 'this film is two hours long...get to the point'. Will Volonte favour the green and sell his ammo and guns to the General leading the revolution or will he keep them and defend a town from the army? Will the sneaky guy use the gold bullet he keeps for whatever reason? Will Klaus Kinski actually play himself in the final scene or will it be a body double as I think it is (you may want to check that out).Spaghetti Westerns are hard to get wrong and this one doesn't fail at all. It's kind of draggy in places and has a very different kind of ending to what you're used to, but then again it is one that you may come away from thinking about. Gian Marie Volonte surely didn't look so filthy in real life, eh?

Martin Bradley Okay, so the dubbing's atrocious but in every other respect Damiano Damiani's "A Bullet for the General" is a classic Spaghetti Western which has built up quite a considerable cult since it first appeared. With a cast headed by Gian Maria Volonte, Klaus Kinski and Lou Castel, not to mention cult favorite Martine Beswick, what do you expect but it's Damiani's direction, (he handles the plentiful action sequences splendidly), and Antonio Secchi's superb widescreen cinematography, together with an intelligent and politically astute screenplay, in part written by Franco Solinas, that gives this marvelous film an edge over many of its contemporaries.

Cambronne An Italian crude version of west and an Italian vision of the reality of late sixty years of XX century The late sixties were the same year of first feeble Italian crime/police films that explained the crude real life of the period named as "lead years", terrorism, murders and kidnapping. This film is the prelude to all these fact. Gian Maria Volontè superb acting piece also in a low cost production, dialogs very essential and with a little bit of anarchy sense. I saw this film at 7 - 8 years old with my grandpa in an old smoky cinema and was for me not bloodiest not like other actual films. A real must for all kids mature and experts. Note also the presence of a less known Klaus Kinsky as El Chuncho's brother.