The Mercenary (1968)
8/10
Corbucci and Nero finnest Western.
14 March 2020
Watching a spaggethi western, made by italians, filmed in spain, on a american mainly themed genre but takes place in Mexico, this movie really is more a guacamole western rather than spaggethi or tortilla Western. Jokes aside, this movie really stand out there in the genre, giving trilling perfomances, new locations and Corbucci having something to say, yet again.

Franco Nero is amazing in this movie as the Polish or Polaco, been a gunner selling for the best price and giving something new to this kind of movies with his perfomance, Tony Musante and Jack Palance really add something else as well with good perfomances and great chemistry between this trio.

Corbucci really showed his skills in this movie, trying to give something different to the usual Spaggethi movie and at the same time retaining the essentials that made this genre so special, filming in Spain really helped the movie, there´s some shots on the landscape that are very impressing.

Plot wise the movie is fine, altough it rushes to the end , a couple of extra minutes would help the movie much more giving more weight to the final duel, wich at the same time is a weird hybrid metween Corbucci´s theme for the movie and the trio with the duels of the first two Segio Leone´s movies.

At the end this movie is a hidden geme for Westerns and should be talked more, specially the Morricone score, wich is really great here and orignal.
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