Spaghetti & TNT or 'Whatever.'

Rating: 7/10 (10 July 2000)

This film. like the other Westerns of Leone is a spoof of many of our no less prized cultural norms. The interplay and undercutting of both heroic and anti-heroic, the wit and warmth make for this viewer at least an irresistible combination. The film is filled with much of the post-modern humanism which pervades our culture in recent years, of Hamletic indifference; "If it be now; 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is't to leave betimes? Let be." (V.ii.220-225): meaning 'random' or 'whatever, never mind.' For these reasons the film speaks to me even more now that it did thirty years ago, and places it at the top of the list of 'Spaghetti' Westerns.