Boooom!

Rating: Null/10 (29 January 2004)

It is always interesting to see a weak film of one of the world's most honest directors, a fellow that knew his limitations and still provided one of the most original bodies of work in modern cinema. Leone's westerns are shot with the heart and are cut with his teeth. This long epic of dynamite blows, broken-english curses, glaring disconnected Irish flashbacks, zooming galore and close up of bare buttocks provides a wonderful acting duel between Coburn and Steiger, a sort of Quixotean duo of the Mexican revolution. Think of a similar kind of material polished by craftier hands and you get the contemporary and striking railway extravaganza `The Emperor of the North Pole' directed by Robert Aldrich.