Crap, first draft was lost :-p My reviews of the Dollars Trilogy are generally going to be short anyway, I realise. I just don’t have much to say about them. This one is the one I remember most, so I’m guessing it’s the first I saw when I was first getting seriously into movies circa 1996/7. I love the first shot, pre-credits (literally – a gunshot). I’d either altered this sequence in my head or they’ve screwed something up with the remastering, I’m guessing the former, but I still love the way you see the puff of smoke just a little before you hear the crack of the bullet (in my mind I’d always remembered the time between the two being a lot longer). Then Morricone’s score comes up and the title dances onto the screen and you know exactly where you are. The whole thing’s a little more elaborate here than in Fistful, from the action set-ups to the story itself to the length of the movie, and all these things become even more elaborate in the next one. In a way, these movies are kind of like rehearsals, I guess, for Leone as he made his way to the Once upon a time in the West and America. Damn fun rehearsals, though.

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