Afouotos
Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.
RipDelight
This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
Huievest
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Dynamixor
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
beowulfsfriend
One can definitely tell Sergio was involved. Naming the bad guys The Wild Bunch and having a grave marker for Sam Peckenpah was outstanding. Good use of humor.Made during the near end of Fonda's cowboy days. Pure old-time spaghetti Western, only with a mix of lots of humor. Sadly they don't make films like this anymore. Best line by Fonda, "When you find yourself covered in s---, sometimes it pays to keep quiet."
John Brooks
Sergio Leone was sort of a Tarantino from the 70's in how he made films all based on style and an exaggerated thick sense of humor. The issue is a film based on style will always by default lack in content and will always struggle hard to give meaning to itself. This is a completely cartoonish, slow Leone where if you're not absolutely in love with the humor, stylistic editing and atmosphere, you might be in for a long, long viewing. It runs just under 2hrs, so quite far from the "Once Upon a Time..." endeavor. But still. A joke may be excellent but it loses its excellence when it's repeated a million times in a row.It's just as slow as Once Upon a Time, but proportional to its run time so feels a tad less lethargic, not a difficult task by any means, and carries a tad more spontaneous rhythm. It's more on the funnier side, and is actually funny on a rare few couple of occasions and the fact it's a comedy certainly helps to make this more watchable.The constant overdubs, dodgy editing and visual/camera quality along with how grotesquely silly and self-indulgent the film is definitely give it a certain B film tone.People shoot their guns at stuff, all the time, at everything: at other people, hats, guns, glasses, billiard balls... it never gets bored with itself.It's fun for about an hour but then loses itself in completely lazy sequences that are unsubtle, and really quite vacant a lot of the time. It gets redundant and trapped into itself rather quickly. One finds himself wondering where the film went, where it's going.The moral at the end is too ordinary and clichéd and uncharacteristic for the film, feels out of place.So if you love Leone, for whatever personal reason, that's that. If you're not a fan, there's practically nothing to keep out of this, on any level really.4/10.
carbuff
Here's the essence: Low budget. Bad dubbing. Super funny. Not serious. Really good-natured. Great soundtrack. Probably written drunk. Probably performed drunk. It was a truly brilliant formula that appears to be lost to time. Personally, I think that the Terrance Hill/Trinity Westerns series are the best Westerns ever made. They are just so clever, light-hearted, and stuffed with so many gags that I wish there were hundreds of them. If you're familiar with the European comic book "Lucky Luke", these movies remind me a lot of it.Put simply, Nobody ever did them better.
t_atzmueller
Unlike the "Trinity"-films with Bud Spencer, "Il mio nome e nessuno" ("My Name is Nobody") is more of a hybrid between the above mentioned light-hearted Fun-Westerns, directed by Enzo Barboni or Michele Lupo, and those grim, yet psychedelically humorous Spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone (who wrote the script for this movie).For one, we have Henry Fonda (as fading gunslinger Jack Beauregard), playing his scenes as straight-faced as he had in any US-Westerns since the beginning of the century. More impressive yet is the performance of Terence Hill, who merges his worn "Trinity"-character, jovial, likable buffoon yet "Lucky Luke"-compatible gunslinger, who can shoot faster than his shadow), with a character that often makes us wonder "could 'Nobody' be psychotic?" Terence Hill plays the character 'Nobody' as a mixture of admiring fan and stalker, leaving us wondering until the very end, whether he just admires Beauregard or whether he admires him so much, that he'd get Beauregard killed."Il mio nome e nessuno" is, in my opinion, wrongfully compared to the "Trinity" westerns – although I'm a fan of those as well, they remain comparable simple Spaghetti-Westerns compared to "Il mio nome e nessuno".The highlight of Terence Hills (solo)-career and one of the few European Western films that deserve to be taken serious by fans of 'serious' Western films.