A Fistful of Idiocy

Rating: 3/10 (19 April 2016)

Junk.
Sergio Leone was an acquired taste--his "Dollar Trilogy" runs the gamut from lean/lyrical to surreal/stupefying. Leone comes a cropper with his elephantine "A Fistful of Dynamite," a low-brid combination of political revolution, infantile plotting, and dreadful performances.
Although "Duck You Sucker" (the alternate title) tries to be a message film, all we get is incoherence, with buckets of blood and one of the weirder musical scores I've heard. Rod Steiger and James Coburn are trapped in bad make-up and/or bad accents as they slaughter and butcher and incinerate roughly a third of the Mexican Army in the 1910 Revolution.
I kept hoping, during what seemed to be a week of movie watching, that some of the old surrealistic, alternate-universe, western magic would appear.
All I got for my effort of watching A Fistful of Dynamite was a weak headache, and I felt sad for Sergio Leone because, although he wasn't a great director, he had a knack for big storytelling.
And that knack wasn't apparent in this incomprehensible and artsy- fartsy bloodbath.