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Tuesday 12 February 2013

Dollar for the Dead (1998)

A loving tribute to Sergio Leone’s film style with some exciting action scenes peppered throughout that actually manage to push the visual clichés aside just long enough to make it a decent Saturday afternoon distraction while you wait for the spaghetti to cook. I can forgive its low budget and cheapo cinematography because it has a workable plot, but I can’t forgive Estevez’s lack of charisma, nor the complete absence of atmosphere which could easily have been remedied by a quick trip to the sound effects library. It's fun but forgettable.

2½ bags of gold out of 5

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