NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Loui Blair It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Bezenby Sure, the lead hero guy here is a bit bland and not given much to do, but thankfully the two bad guys here - George Eastman and Horst Frank, save the film! Maybe director Ferdinando Baldi knew this, as he seems to focus more on Eastman than anyone else. That, and there's a them tune seemingly sung by a pre-op transvestite whose hormone supplements have gone wrong.26 foot tall Eastman plays Gary Stevens, and when we first meet him, he's riding into town following a guy called Dakota, who owns half a map that leads to a gold mine. After no one in town will help Dakota, and grinning Stevens guns him and his wife down (he doesn't spot their son, however). A local undertaker saves the son and takes him to Dakota's brother, who is also called Dakota.This, more alive Dakota, starts things off by giving local sheriff Franco Fantasia a good kicking for not helping his brother, but it's really Stevens he's after. Things get a bit complicated as Stevens actually works for evil Horst Frank, and Frank wants that map, but also doesn't want to give Stevens his share - cue double crossings! The good thing about Frank is that he likes to force people to fight each other using huge metal claws. Why I don't know, but it looks cool and it's not something you see often in these films. That's another thing this film has going for it - claw fighting. And explosions.While it's mostly a kind of run of the mill Spaghetti Western director Baldi throws in enough weirdness to grab your attention (claw fighting!) so it kind of stands out that way. Plus, Baldi also made Warbus so he ain't no fool. Eastman is good as the goofy, laughing Stevens and Horst Frank has a stare that could pierce metal. Needed a better leading man, though.

Leofwine_draca HATE THY NEIGHBOR is a decent little revenge western from Ferdinando Baldi, something of an expert director in the genre. It's about your usual gunslinger type hero seeking revenge for the massacre of his family and the plot intrigues that ensue. One of the worst things about the film is the main actor, Spiros Focas, who has no charisma and evokes no sympathy in the viewer whatsoever.Thankfully a larger-than-life team of villains is much more interesting than the hero and lift the interest quite considerably. Later exploitation and video nasty stalwart George Eastman stars in an early role as a hulking brute who goes around raping and killing and the like before being brought to book. The chief villain is the incredibly slimy Malone, as played by German actor Horst Frank. Frank gives a thoroughly creepy turn in the role and the only pity is that the hero can't match the power of these bad guys. Still, there's fun to be had from snake pits and claw weapons with which slaves are made to fight, and the gun action is pretty cool too.

redwhiteandblue1776 I gave this movie a 2 only because the dubbing into English was pretty good. Other than that: simplistic, unbelievable and amateurish. I watch these things only for the comic value while wondering why anyone would actually spend money producing it. I like westerns, but they have to have some semblance of reality. Apparently the director invented a whole new way of fighting when the two fighters with the steel hooks would dance around each other covering their faces. Very strange. And it was amazing that so many men could be shot with one bullet and just fall over dead. One even got stabbed in the stomach and just died instantly. Give me a break.

FightingWesterner Along with the town undertaker, a Man follows his brother's killer (George Eastman) to Mexico, where sinister (and I mean sinister!) gringo Horst Frank forces his Mexican slaves to fight to the death using steel claws. Frank then sets his sights on Eastman's secret goldmine, holding him captive and torturing him until the justice seeking brother comes to take him away.A fairly standard revenge plot is helped along nicely by some interesting ideas, unusual developments, and some fairly graphic violence, keeping things exciting and entertaining throughout.Due to the crackpot nature of some of the film's plot elements, this seems more like a drive-in movie than a spaghetti western.Horst Frank is a lot of fun to watch as the deranged, yet urbane bad guy, while George Eastman is good and nasty too. However, the hero is too bland and cardboard. You don't really feel anything about him, one way or another.