8/10
Last Hope!
10 February 2006
Warning: Spoilers
This movie which was done in 1977 was the last hope for the Genre which was the Spaghetti Westerns. So much crap was produced through the later years. Mannaja ( A Man Called Blade) was one of my favorites the only two things it really lacked was the opening score was a bit weak and the whole Donal O'Brien Character (Craven) coming back to nurse Blade back to health to betray him????? That was the only problems, I had with the movie. The rest was awesome great job on behalf of director Martino and very impressive camera work by Federico Zanni. Maurizio Merli played the blade character to a tee great job especially for his only contribution to the genre.

I really enjoyed the music with the beginning love stages with blade and actress Martine Brochard a very well choreographed scene. Also who can forget the rotting eyeballs scene. The story was great so was the acting an overall interesting tale of a mountain man bounty hunter out for revenge. It's a shame such a great movie came too late to change things for the genre.
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