Compelling acting & music

Rating: 10/10 (30 December 2017)

The plot's pretty good, the staircase scene near the end with Costner & Garcia is one of my favourite in cinematic history, but what sets this apart is the screen enormous presence of DeNiro and Connery being DeNiro-ish and Connery-ish, Costner being well-cast, Garcia's semi-controlled brashness, and Charles Martin Smith's curiously lovable role.
All that with the backdrop of some of Ennio Morricone's finest soundtrack-writing.
It's a gut-wrencher every time I watch it.