Django (1966)

A Masterpiece!

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

I love Quentin Tarantino films. He admits to being heavily influenced by foreign movies, most especially the original Django. Both the Hateful Eight and Django Unchained show just how much Q.T. borrowed for these joints. I finally caught up with this 50+ year old gem and I recommend any fan of Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns watch as Franco Nero does an Italian version of a lone man against the world. Here he has plenty of enemies to battle and a beautiful damsel in distress to fight, mostly red necks and Mexicans. The ninety minute movie is a perfect solution to pass a dull evening.

I think for its time, Django would have been great, but a lot of the style and ideas have been copied by a lot of look-alikes, that it probably doesn't look at edgey that it did at its time.Clearly, the copy cat films made after it, by directors other than corbucci, show that it was something that had an impact, and was successful that other people wanted to emulate it.Production values (as with many Spaghetti Westerns) aren't great, and clearly made on a low budget. One of the shots in the western bar fight has a camera crew clearly in shot, and the sets are minimal.Storyline wise, its fun and a bit out there, though a bit similar to "a fist full of Dollars", released 2 years before. The dialogue (though possibly better in its original Italian, as I've only seen the English dub) is a bit clichéd and basic. Watching the main deal with situations having to lug around a heavy coffin is certainly not your average plot device.Franco Nero does a great job as the hero, and is a solid actor, only let down by some of the dialogue he has to work with.Overall, worth a watch, but in the Western Genre, not in the same league as the classic Ford Westerns and, I'd put him next best to Sergio Leone "Man with no Name" series.

Overrated spaghetti western movie. This movie have predictable and boring plot. There is no blood effect on bodies stricken. Dubbing Italian language is very bad. Everybody had same accent, even Mexicans. Belove average actors. Main role Django killing five villains in eye to eye combat.That is not realistic. Only town looks realistic for western films times. I was watched this film about 55 minutes, I really can't longer because that suppose to be torturing for me. I really cannot believe how somebody can give full 10 or nine for movie like this. They really shouldn't wrote reviews for movies. If you don't know what is good or what is bad movie please don't writing reviews anymore!!!

A mysterious stranger called Django wanders into a deserted southern town, pulling a coffin behind him, and proceeds to make enemies with the local posse of outlaws. What is his agenda, and what has he got in that coffin ?Sergio Corbucci for me is the Bad Boy of Italian cinema where filmmakers tend to divide into the acclaimed and the hacks, with the best directors almost always being in the latter camp. Corbucci made exploitation films, but his method of gaining notoriety was to make his films more brutal, more sadistic, more shocking than anyone else's. Django is a good example of this - literally everything in the whole movie is horrible. Everyone is a killer or a hooker, nobody trusts anybody or cares about anything, the only pastimes are torture and murder and the town the action takes place in is an empty, worthless, ramshackle set of buildings situated in a sea of mud. Unlike the philosophical or reflective tone of Sergio Leone's sixties westerns, Corbucci revels in the violence, gleefully emphasising cruelty and injustice, so that the movie in many ways plays more like a horror film. The fact that it's so hypnotic despite this jarringly blunt callousness is great testament to the skill of its makers and to a then-unknown Nero's iconic charm. The telephoto camera-work by Enzo Barboni literally mires us in the dirt and Luis Bacalov's alternately jarring/soothing music is a perfect accompaniment to the action. Django was a huge hit in mainland Europe on its release and prompted dozens of knock-offs and imitators; the best of these is probably the 1967 Django Kill with Tomas Milian, although there was an "official" sequel in 1987 with Nero reprising the role called Django 2: Il Grande Ritorno, and a revived interest in the character following Quentin Tarantino's recent Django Unchained. A must-see for all cult film fans and a depressing but arresting flourish of Corbucci's talent.