6/10
Too loosely written to be compelling
8 January 2006
Warning: Spoilers
The problem with "Django, Kill..." is it doesn't know when to quit. It is too loose to be compelling. Though it follows the fortunes of "The Stranger" (Tomas Milan) after he is left for dead by ruthless bandits, it is plotted all over the place and loses its way investigating every possible subplot on offer. It ignores the Milan story while doing so, but maybe that's because Milan's character is not very compelling. What Milan finally does could have been covered in a half hour short. Despite these gripes, the film is still an entertaining and bizarre one, and there's a vein of very black humor running through. The scene in which greedy human varmints tear open a body to search for gold bullets is very funny, as are director Giulio Questi's introductory shots of the film's featured town. It's like the writers are saying "No town could be this vile, except this one." There is a fairly bloody but not realistic scalping, the surgery scene, and some decent hanging shots. The shoot-outs are standard, not stylish, not dull. The score by Ivan Vandor is catchy and eccentric enough to sound like Morricone at times. Certainly worth seeing, but, script-wise, the very opposite of taut.
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