Duck, You Sucker (1971)

It’s at this point that I might have to come to the conclusion that I’m not the audience for Sergio Leone’s films. Despite it’s length, I did enjoy Once Upon a Time in the West, but the combining two genres (gritty 1970s realism and Westerns) that I’m not a big fan of just isn’t a way to win my interest. In the early 1900s, Rod Steiger is a Mexican bandit who coerces Irish Revolutionary explosives expert James Coburn to join his gang, along the way he accidentally becomes a hero of the Revolution. The performances are strong and the two leads have good chemistry, but at its core it is dark and violent and a horribly cynical view of revolutions.