86. For A Few Dollars More (1965) – Sergio Leone
Two bounty hunters with completely different intentions team up to track down a Western outlaw
For a Few Dollars more is the second in the “Dollars” trilogy and again follows Clint Eastwood as “the man with no name”. He teams up with Colonel Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef) to shoot down a gang of bank robbers to recieve a handsome cash reward.
The movie once again shows Leone’s style of film making, the extreme close ups, the epic and grand scale, the mythology of westerns and the operatic final confrontation known as “the shoot out”.
No matter how over the top the dialogue gets or how silly some of the situations are (like the Van Cleef/Eastwood hat shoot out) it still works and doesn’t leave you feeling that the movie is stupid. Like the sucess Tarantino would later have, Leone has the ability to create any situation, with any character and line of dialogue and make it fit in his own universe.
A fantastic movie, which comes together so well in the third act you immediatly want to watch it all over again. The haunting melody of the watch, and the reasons that motivate both the villain El Indio and Colonel Mortimer give the whole movie some fantastic depth.
Not Leone’s best work, but still great.
