Film Review: A Fistful of Dollars (dir. S. Leone, 1964)

Well, this is the one that started it all. If by "all," one means spaghetti Westerns. This film is much less ambitious than For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. It is also a remarkable rip-off of Yojimbo.

This is a good movie, but I think I prefer Yojimbo. Clint is great, as always, and the other characters are well played. In terms of spaghetti Westerns, I would rank this third, behind (in order) For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Nothing against the movie, it's just not as good as the others.