Buy Low Price From Here Now
Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 05/12/2009 Rating: R
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By K. Birdwell (Bellevue, WA USA)
Before you scream how dare I not give this classic 5 stars, lets get the good parts out of the way. Great video transfer, excellent color and crispness for a movie of the time. All the wonderful music and cinematography are still there. Loved seeing it at full aspect ratio as well. Performances are still excellent (at times). Audio quality is just okay, occasionally seemed a bit muddy but a lot of that is just the reality of a 1967 movie. They ugly part is that they restored all the original footage cut for US release. Normally, that'd be a good thing, and the purists will love it, and I was really looking forward to seeing the entire movie as the director intended but good god this movie now meanders. The tight, tense, character driven storyline is greatly weakened. It builds energy, then gets sidetracked on some pointless exposition for 10 minutes. It tries to jump back into the story, only to lose its focus again. The tone changes scene to scene. Some of scenes seem to be misguided attempts at comedy, others are incongruously melancholy. All of that could be made to work, but it doesn't. It just leaves big weak spots all over spilling out into what would be otherwise great performances. With a limited budget and tight focus, Sergio Leone is unmatched. With a big budget (for the time), as much dialogue as he wants and no one to stop him, he's just okay. There's a great 90-110 minute movie here, lost between footage best left on the cutting room floor.
By Jason467
Worth the extra money for the Blu-Ray Loaded with tons of special features. A great addition to any collection.
By Arkan (Sharq,Kuwait)
What can i say ,i have watched this movie atleast 50 times.
Now i have purchased it on Blu Ray and it looks fantastic.
Great audio and video transfer ,but sometimes the audio special effects sounds a little tacky.
This is a must buy for any western movie fans out there.
By robert croce
I will preface this review by admitting that this is one of my favorite films of all time. I fell in love with this movie when I was a kid, watching it on a 13" black and white tv. Given that this is a movie that needs to be watched in "widescreen", it tells a lot about how wonderful the story is that this film can be enjoyed on even the worst of presentations. As the years have gone by, I have been able to watch this film in better visual circumstances: videotape in color, dvd on a widescreen, "restored" dvd on a larger widescreen, and now finally in Blu-Ray on a HD tv. The film has lost none of its magic for me, (I have come to realize that this is more of a fantasy film than a western). I appreciate how the moral tones of the story are much more subdued as compared to the "black/white- good/evil" storytelling of earlier westerns. The camera work in this film is so unique: we are presented with vast expanses of hilly terrain with a barely visible rider on a horse, to extreme facial/eye close-ups with insects darting around the actors face. The story is humerous at times- with both physical and verbal comedic elements, as well as sad- with extremely deep emotional scenes regarding life, death, and the value of both. The scene where Tuco confronts his brother in the Abby remains to this day, upon countless viewings, very powerful to me. In my opinion it is the most dramatic scene in the film. It is when we realize that these characters are multi-demensional- and cannot be pegged as just "Good, Bad, or Ugly". We as humans are all three.
Then there is the music. Ennio Morricones score is as much of a character in this film as any of the actors. It is pure magic.
So, is the Blu-ray worth the upgrade? In my opinion: Yes. I had reservations as to how much improvement could be made to this film. I can tell you that, while this film will never look as good as films made today, it actually looks better than my dvd version, which itself was restored. It looks clean, with very fine film-grain. I would say that if you have a blu-ray player and an HD tv, and you really do love this film, it is worth the upgrade.
By D. Shuster (Southern Pines, N.C.)
The quality of this blew me away. This is one of my all time favorite movies and now to see it in crystal clear blu-ray is FANTASTIC. It's as though it was just filmed. Hard to believe it is from the 60's. Do yourself a favor and add this to your collection!!!
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