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Well, what would you say about the cinematic talents of the director of such cheesy classics like "1990 - The Bronx Warriors" and "The Day of the Cobra"? Well, think it over many times because he made, at least, one masterpiece (not only for the spaghetti-western genre, but to the classic western as well). "Keoma" is one hell of a macho movie, I can only say that. While watching the movie I could only remember of two GREAT directors: Peckinpah and Leone. Let me explain: I remembered Peckinpah for the use of editing that Castellari employees here (and basically the many deaths that both directors are capable of showing in a matter of seconds) and Leone for the use of widescreen. Franco Nero rocks as the title character (ok, so he doesn't really look like an Indian, but that Italian accent - in the English dubbed version (!) - makes it all forgivable) and good ole star appearances like Woody Strode (from "C'Era una Volta il West", or as you say in English "Once Upon a Time in the West") and William Berger (from the first "Sabata") only makes this movie more enjoyable (oh, and let's not forget that beauty from Lucio Fulci's "Zombie" and Sergio Leone's "Once Upon a Time in America", Olga Karlatos). Very good movie with an excellent script (something as rare for a spaghetti-western as a good Halloween sequel), great musical score (if you're like me and likes Bob Dylan then this is the movie for you) and great mise-en-scéne from Castellari (just for you to see what I'm talking about here, there are moments in this movie that one would rather remind as coming from directors like Alain Resnais (!), Luis Buñuel (!!) and Alejandro Jodorowsky (!!!) then coming from directors like Duccio Tessari, Gianfranco Parolini or, let me pick one... Sergio Sollima?). One of the bests ever to come out of it's genre.
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