A low-life bandit and an explosives expert become unwitting heroes of the Mexican Revolution in the second-to-last feature film from...
A low-life bandit and an explosives expert become unwitting heroes of the Mexican Revolution in the second-to-last feature film from the great Sergio Leone, made directly after his 1968 western masterpiece Once Upon a Time in the West.
At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda (Oscar winner Rod Steiger) and idealist John H. Mallory (Oscar winner James Coburn), an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.
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92 %26 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
84 %11,630 reviewsAudience score rating
"Sergio Leone will rest in peace, now that this under valued film is finally restored ... retains its extraordinary power, driven in large part by the two central performances."
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Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile"The most wry of the political spaghettis, and wholly wonderful."
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Time Out
Time Out"The resultant mix of dreaminess, violence and politics is a bit unwieldy, but it sticks to your ribs. You'll savor pieces of Duck, You Sucker in your head much later: the mark of a work by a true voluptuary, the overspill in whose craft comes as much from enthusiasm as arrogance."
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The New York Times
The New York TimesA Fistful of Dynamite | Details
- Rating
- M, Medium level violence, Medium level coarse language
- Runtime
- 157
- Genre
- Western
- Country of origin
- Italy, Spain
