BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

VividSimon Simply Perfect

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

ZeenaSandhu An all time favorite that can be watched many times. The dialogues are iconic. I love the music.

Devran ikiz "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" is the 3rd and the last film of Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy which is also known as The Man with No Name. It is one of the best western films of all time, in my opinion the best. After this film, Clint Eastwood began to be recognized as an International film star. The film opens with a very familiar theme song composed by Ennio Morricone. I have heard this soundtrack a lot of times in other films, commercials and games. This instrumental soundtrack is one of the most iconic scores in the film history. When this theme song is combined with the presence of Clint Eastwood, as Blondie, it is even more meaningful. After the two films of the trilogy, I became familiar with Sergio Leone and his directing style. He uses extreme facial close-ups to express the feelings of a person without using conversations. He also uses long shots for the same purpose. Just by looking at the face of the actor from up close, you get to understand how he feels. In his films you get to see a lot of silent but expressive scenes. Take the last scene in the cemetery as an example. Before shooting starts, camera moves from one face to another, from one pistol to another. This scene starts with full long body shots and ends with extreme close ups to the eyes. This takes more than 4 minutes, and creates one of the most iconic scene of the film.When I watch a film, I don't pay much attention to the technical details. I like to write about how a film makes me feel and why. But here, it was impossible not to talk about his directing style, which changes the course of the film completely. Once again, the soundtracks including not only the theme song, are all over the story, which makes the audience feel the tense of a particular scene. Sergio Leone is one of the directors who uses soundtracks as a power over the story. With all the struggles during the filming of the trilogy, after "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," he managed to put his name as one of the best directors of all times. The film was made with a budget of $1.2 Million and grossed over $25 Million. While I am writing this review, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" stands on the 9th place in IMDB's top 250 films of all times. The story is intense, the performances are amazing and the atmosphere is real. This film has everything that a film must have in order to be considered a masterpiece"The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" opens with three different scenes, where we get to meet The Ugly, The Bad and The Good respectively. All three scenes take around 30 minutes, and if I haven't counted wrong, a total of 9 people die, three per character. Sergio Leone uses first scenes of his films to introduce us the main characters of his story. He uses this storytelling technique in all his three films. By doing this, he prepares us to the real plot, and creates a credibility over his main characters. The role of The Ugly, Tuco, is played by Eli Wallach. At first, I found this choice surprising, and if I wouldn't have seen the actors, I would have named Gian Maria Volonte, as The Bad, Clint Eastwood as The Good and Lee Van Cleef as The Ugly. But, in the end of the film, I have seen that the casting choices are exactly how they are supposed to be. Tuco is the most distinctive character of the film and Lee Van Cleef couldn't have performed well in this role. In the first two films, Gian Maria Volonte was the main villain of the story. When you look at "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," there is actually no villain in it, therefore it makes sense why he was left out."The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" has an easy plot. It is about three gunmen who go after 200K Dollars buried in a cemetery. The story takes place during the Civil War in America. Even though the main characters have nothing to do with it, the story of "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly," evolves around the Civil War. The adventures of these gunmen, on their journey to the cemetery, are interrupted a lot of times because of the war. In these scenes, Sergio Leone shows us the real effects of the war on people. Destroyed towns, lost lives and killed people are focus points of the story. It is fascinating, how you get to see the realities of the American Civil War, in an Italian made film. From all points of views, "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" is a masterpiece which all cinema fans must see.

thedarkknight-99999 This epic features a coherent story, complex characters, iconic performances, mesmerizing landscapes, one of the greatest movie endings ever, and a timeless score by Ennio Morricone. It's easily one of the best (if not the best) westerns of all time, If you haven't watched it yet, I envy you, because that means you haven't enjoyed the most entertaining 3 hours in your life yet. (9/10)

TheNabOwnzz As Sergio Leone was cementing himself as a great director after the excellent Yojimbo remake 'Fistful of Dollars' and the incredible 'For a Few Dollars More', with 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' he has managed to reach his quality climax. With a lot of close ups, gorgeous landscape cinematography & stylish drawn out tenseful gunfights all of Leone's trademarks are clearly visible. Yet why is The Good, the Bad and the Ugly even better than his other masterpieces? The three main characters are ofcourse the stars of this show, with each putting in an exceptional performance, especially Eli Wallach as the eccentric bandit Tuco. Clint Eastwood & Lee van Cleef's natural acting talent show that there is no need for useless dialogue to insult the viewers intelligence, facial acting is an even more impressive kind of acting, and with van Cleef and Eastwood, they had the two best in the business. The little dialogue also gives the viewer a chance to listen to the absolutely incredible musical orchestrations by Ennio Morricone, which is always in a natural kind of harmony to Leone's direction skills, resulting in absolutely graceful scenes that delight the eyes. The dialogue that is there always seems to further the story or enhance character development ( specifically in Tuco's case ), and not insult the viewers intelligence. It even includes a parody on one of the most common Hollywood clichés when Tuco says: 'When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk!'.Unlike Leone's previous films The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is set during the American civil war between the Union and Confederacy, and a lot of small subplots feature this war. Leone shows a sarcastic view on the purposelessness of the civil war in this film by putting the three main characters in its midst while maintaining its own personal story about greed. The alcoholic Union captain shows this perfectly, with his fed up view about the brutality and the senseless deaths of the civil war, or Angel Eyes's trip through a confederate hospital showing all the wounded as Morricone's dramatic music plays. As for morals, we see the nametags of the title of the movie added to the three characters, yet don't really see all three of them as more than common thugs at the start of the movie. However, the civil war changes this, showing Blondie a man of compassion when faced with a dying soldier, to whom he shares his cigar. A little gesture of great moral worth. Also showing Angel Eyes's indifference with his stolen identity as a fake Union sergeant only to further his own personal greedy agenda. Tuco is shown after the meeting with his brother to be forced into the way he is now, and even though he is a vulgar, dirty, ugly ( no pun intended ) character Leone manages to make him likeable when he is influenced by greed. Thus one of the greatest decisions Leone made was having the setting during the civil war, as its part in this story further enhances character development and brings up questions about the senselessness of it all. The blowing up of the bridge could be seen as the greatest ironic statement of Leone against war.Yet the primary story still consists of finding gold in a certain cemetery, as a personal study of greed. This concept alone might not seem so spectacular, but Ennio Morricone's haunting score, the beautiful desert landscape cinematography, stylish gunfights and the brilliant acting results in an incredible primary story aswell. It is one of the films with some of the greatest final 15-20 minutes ever put to screen, resulting in a large payoff deserving of such a quality film. In the end we truly begin to understand why the tags 'Good', 'Bad' and 'Ugly' are stated in the beginning of the film, as all of the characters have evolved to their respective states during the affairs in the civil war. This is excluding Angel Eyes, who is shown to be evil, dressed in black, from the start, but that makes sense since Leone wanted to show the differences between the three characters in a morality contest during the film, and as Blondie and Tuco changed, Angel Eyes had to be different from them.All of this cements The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as one of the greatest films ever made, and the greatest western ever made, since it tackles so many different kind of themes. It is one of the greatest pieces of entertainment, yet also tackling morality problems and making anti-war statements.