Yeah, I get it. Famous actors. Famous writer/director. But 47 minutes in, I find myself struggling to explain plot line after plot line. The Mexican bad guys in the first two slaughters are like comedy teams of ineptitude. The second group of three are both gullible and dull. Then a revolver in the scene turns into a 45. Then a very interesting and rather long sequence of stringing long amounts of dynamite wire is demolished by a speech in which we are told that a couple feet of fuse are all that need to be lit. With a match. WTF? But the next scene of unbearable contradiction involved the Colorado's, a group of apparent Mexicans who killed a bunch of townspeople. This story leaves us wondering who the government force was, who the rebels were, whether the rebels were in fact total cowards, whether the government was in fact American. Since Jack Palance's guys kill the Colorado's, and since the Colorado's are bad, this appears to make Palance, aka Jesus, a good guy. And yes, each of these crazy writing gaffes made me rewind and review (something not available in 1966 to the consumer), so I am positive they are just tragically bad editing or writing. I am debating at this point whether to fast forward to where the inevitable wife left husband she was not kidnapped point comes in for a landing. But the best use of this movie is the basis for a mystery science 3000 episode.
Review of The Professionals
