Great movie, but he ending defies reality.

Rating: 10/10 (13 November 2005)

OK, I' m about to nit-pick one of the greatest films ever made (speaking of the relatively uncut version, of course) but I just want to know if this bothers anyone else.
The near-final scene in which the two trains collide, while brilliantly cinematic, makes absolutely no sense:
1: How could the revolutionaries possibly be right there, ready to fire on the wreckage? If you are driving one train into another over that much track, there is no way to predict exactly where they will collide. It's absurd.
2: After such a crash, with one train doing at least 30-40 mph even with it's brakes on and the other train running full-out, how exactly did so many soldiers live through it? They would surely all have been killed instantly.
3: A minor point, but after Steiger blows away the German officer, firing something like 100 rounds into his body, Leone shows us a closeup of the body, and there's not a single bullet hole to be seen, either in his face or torso. That one REALLY bugs me.
There, I said it. I feel much better now.
Looking forward to seeing the IMDb ratings climb for this flick, now that the (almost) uncut version is becoming more well known. It deserves to be in the top 50 for sure. Makes my top ten list, despite the above comments.