Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

EyeDunno I may be giving Django Kill a higher star review than what I'd usually hand such films, but it's a strangely addicting film. First of all, this review is mainly for the English-dubbed film (with references to the original Italian version), which does NO justice for the main character - "The Stranger" (Tomas Milian). His actual voice is so very much better than the dubbed version, and the producers did a poor job of choosing whose voice would carry him. The first scene... I simply can't get that opening out of my head. It literally can turn your head upside down, just as some of the filmmaking showed. There are scenes, characters and animals in this first montage which is pretty jaw-dropping. It invites you to a place where you simply don't want to visit. And while my gut instincts told me that the gang shouldn't keep going, they do. But they are a group packed to the gills with six-shooters and attitude. Everything was named "Django" for a while following the original film's success, but this feature has no Django at all. If you haven't seen Milian in such films as "Run, Man, Run (1968), you won't be able to appreciate his talent in Django Kill. He has expressions and body language that should have been featured more effectively, which speaks to the lack of wisdom of the direction and production. Having said that however, I just cannot get some of the scenes in this film out of my head. At the very least, get a hold of a dual language version of Django Kill! to compare the English with the Italian, as well as the subtitles, which reveal a few masochistic moments that wind up being lost by the time the dubbing was set. For instance, a girl in the English dub says "Give up! Give up!" while you see what REALLY happens in the Italian version. Films like this, and The Great Silence (1968) took Italian westerns to atypical locations than the Leone copycat films.

zardoz-13 Freshman director Giulio Questi's imaginative but contrived horse opera "Django, Kill!" qualifies as one of the most bizarre Spaghetti westerns. Questi filters the abrasive, morally-irresponsible action through the perspective of a wrongly accused half-breed (dressed like Han Solo) rather than a traditional western Anglo-Saxon individual. This eccentric, occasionally savage western delivers so many surprises that--by virtue of its unpredictable plot--it looms above others in the genre for sheer ingenuity. Like most Spaghetti westerns, "Django, Kill" concerns the fanatical quest for monetary wealth. Similarly, the fearless protagonist who sets out to exact vengeance on the Americans for double-crossing him propels the plot forward. The torture scene where vampire bats and other scary critters creep out of the darkness to encourage our abused hero to reveal the whereabouts of the gold doesn't belong in a western. Remember, "Django, Kill" boasts lots of surprises. Something changes every twenty minutes or so. The performances are often better than the dubbing. Piero Lulli makes a great villain while he is on screen. This western contains the most interesting wholesale example of vigilante justice since "The Ox-Bow Incident.""Django, Kill" opens as if it were a supernatural saga with a standard issue close-up of a man's hand crawling out of a grave after dark. Two Native Americans discover the protagonist and nurse him back to health. They take the gold that our hero has and melts it down into bullets. They assure him that gold bullets are the best. Initially, the Indians refer to the hero as an entity from another world. A loquacious American rancher named Mr. Sorrow, who wears a mostly white outfit, maintains an army of black-clad, Stetson-topped, cowboys at his disposal. A suspicious gay subtext runs through the scenes involving these gents. As any Spaghetti western aficionado can tell you, "Django, Kill" has nothing to do with the Sergio Corbucci original "Django" with Franco Nero. Apparently, the producers borrowed the name of Corbucci's western to parlay a fortune for themselves. Although it isn't a masterpiece, "Django, Kill" emerges as unforgettable, despite its sketchy characters.Lead actor Tomas Milian of "The Big Gundown" plays another Mexican, but he relies on a six-gun instead of a knife. He has about five fellow Mexicans with him and they are a part of the outlaw gang that surprises an Army gold shipment while the troops are skinny dipping. When the Stranger (Milian) demands his share of the gold from the robbery from outlaw chieftain Oaks (Piero Lulli), the Americans turn on the Mexicans. They disarm them and force them to dig a mass grave for themselves. One Mexican escapes and whittles away at their horses with a machete. He manages to kill enough horses between Oaks' gunslingers bring him down. Oaks and his men execute the Mexicans. Miraculously, the Stranger survives the ordeal and two Native Americans nurse him back to health. The outlaws trudge into a town that the Native Americans know as 'the Unhappy Place." Oaks and his sidekicks enter the bar and inquire about purchasing nine horses. The bartender discovers that they are outlaws, and the town lynches all of them, except Oaks who takes refuge in an abandoned building. The Native Americans bring the Stranger into town, and he puts four slugs into the treacherous outlaw chieftain. The bartender, Bill Templer (Milo Quesada), gives him $500, but our hero is intent only in sleeping in a room upstairs in the hotel.Few Spaghetti westerns are as visually surreal as "Django, Kill." The death of one of the villains when the gold that he has stashes melts and falls onto his face is definitely different. Nobody ever finds the gold.

dbborroughs Surreal western dealing with various people trying to get their hands on a bunch of gold.The plot has The Stranger some how surviving being shot down by his compatriots after a gold robbery. Rescued by a couple of Indians who want to know what its like on the other side of life, he trails the men who tried to kill him to a town where only one of them remains alive. At this point the film becomes a game as various people try to get their hands on the gold. (For give me for being vague- and only covering the first half hour of plot, but this movie is so unique one should see it on ones own.) Off beat to say the least, this movie has a cruel streak a mile wide. No one is nice, everyone is evil to some degree. And yes there are lots of gay cowboys. Its an unpleasant time in an unpleasant town. This is a one of a kind film that is not for all tastes. At times it plays more like a horror western rather than as a spaghetti western (the end of one person is out of a horror movie.I'm not sure what I think of it. Certainly its well made but it is rather unpleasant. I can't see wanting to see it a second time. The pacing isn't to my tastes and its two hour running time felt even longer. Was it worth seeing? Yes, its a good if nasty film. I don't know what I would have made of the film had I stumbled on to it unaware of what it contained. Certainly I don't know how much more out there you can go with out a film ceasing to be a western.Spaghetti western fans and those who like off beat films are invited to take a look. The rest are advised to proceed with caution.6 out of 10 for the unpleasantness and the uncertainty of a second viewing.

The_Void Those crazy Italians will slap any name on any film if it means it will sell, and even though this film doesn't follow on from Sergio Corbucci's original Django film, doesn't star Franco Nero in the lead role and isn't a continuation of the same story; it still carries the name Django. This will no doubt lead to disappointment for people who are hoping that this film is a sequel, but surely that disappointment won't last long as this film is a sensational Spaghetti Western in its own right! The film is basically a retread of the same ground covered in Sergio Leone's masterpiece 'A Fistful of Dollars' and sees a mysterious drifter embroiled in a battle inside a small western town. The film starts off with Mexican (who is Django in everything but name) crawling out of a grave. From there, we see via flashback that he and a bunch of his fellow Mexicans were double-crossed by their American compatriots after excavating a load of gold. Naturally, Django isn't very pleased about this and decides to follow the Americans in order to get his bloody revenge.Thomas Milian takes the lead role and it has to be said that he does rather well with it. For obvious reasons, he's always going to get compared with Franco Nero, and while the performance doesn't have the same rough pitch as Nero's drifter did, Milian works so well in the lead role because he's manly, but also somewhat vulnerable; which makes the whole thing more believable. It's ironic that Italians tend to make better looking westerns than Americans, but this film helps to prove that irony. The sets do look rather cheap, but at the same time they ensure that Django Kill feels very much like it has been shot in the Wild West, and the environment brilliantly fits the characters. Probably the main reason why this film works so well is because the characters are well done. They're not exactly Shakespearian, but their motives and actions are always believable and because the supporting cast is so well done, it means that the situation that Django finds himself in the centre of is always interesting and engaging. On the whole, this is an excellent Spaghetti Western and one that comes highly recommended to fans of this sort of film.