A Fistful of Dollars

My mistake. Four coffins…

this is the most average westerns get. Average story, average setting, average characters. It's fine. 6/10

My final watch of The Man With No Name trilogy just happens to be the weakest of the three. There were time when I was struggling to get through this one, it just really didn’t manage to hold my attention all that well. The ending is just iconic! Just watch the ending!

Probably the coldest an Eastwood character has ever been - “get three coffins ready”, like damn…

I can’t believe films of this high quality were able to be made with such a small amount of cash. Story, while on the basic side, provides an entertaining playing field for The Man With No Name to operate on. Set pieces are exciting and well executed, characters expansive, and well fleshed out. Across this (unofficial) trilogy, Ennio Morricone’s scores are genuinely some of the best of all time - one of the greatest to ever do it.

Clint is pretty perfect here. It’s not a particularly chatty role, it’s more with the eyes, the expressions, cigar acting is on point. Performing lines as cheesy as this and making them sound hard isn’t easy, especially in a studio after filming - but he does it!

This and A Few Dollars More are pretty level in my eyes, it’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly which clears them both… and most films ever made, just sayin’.

I’d say I like For A Few Dollars more a tad bit more than I liked this film but I still enjoyed the heck out of this.

I absolutely love just deciding to watch an old western film out of the blue cause I just love the whole feel of the film and how it looks in general.

The action is great and I enjoyed seeing the amazing gunslinging skills of Joe yet again.

I can’t wait to pick up the good, the bad and the ugly and hopefully enjoy it as much as I enjoyed this and for a few dollars more.

Overall a solid western with some great acting from Clint Eastwood as always.

Raw, gritty action. Classic Clint Eastwood. Great watch. Great soundtrack.