Those crazy Italians will slap any name on any film if it means it will sell, and even though this film doesn't follow on from Sergio Corbucci's original Django film, doesn't star Franco Nero in the lead role and isn't a continuation of the same story; it still carries the name Django. This will no doubt lead to disappointment for people who are hoping that this film is a sequel, but surely that disappointment won't last long as this film is a sensational Spaghetti Western in its own right! The film is basically a retread of the same ground covered in Sergio Leone's masterpiece 'A Fistful of Dollars' and sees a mysterious drifter embroiled in a battle inside a small western town. The film starts off with Mexican (who is Django in everything but name) crawling out of a grave. From there, we see via flashback that he and a bunch of his fellow Mexicans were double-crossed by their American compatriots after excavating a load of gold. Naturally, Django isn't very pleased about this and decides to follow the Americans in order to get his bloody revenge.
Thomas Milian takes the lead role and it has to be said that he does rather well with it. For obvious reasons, he's always going to get compared with Franco Nero, and while the performance doesn't have the same rough pitch as Nero's drifter did, Milian works so well in the lead role because he's manly, but also somewhat vulnerable; which makes the whole thing more believable. It's ironic that Italians tend to make better looking westerns than Americans, but this film helps to prove that irony. The sets do look rather cheap, but at the same time they ensure that Django Kill feels very much like it has been shot in the Wild West, and the environment brilliantly fits the characters. Probably the main reason why this film works so well is because the characters are well done. They're not exactly Shakespearian, but their motives and actions are always believable and because the supporting cast is so well done, it means that the situation that Django finds himself in the centre of is always interesting and engaging. On the whole, this is an excellent Spaghetti Western and one that comes highly recommended to fans of this sort of film.
Thomas Milian takes the lead role and it has to be said that he does rather well with it. For obvious reasons, he's always going to get compared with Franco Nero, and while the performance doesn't have the same rough pitch as Nero's drifter did, Milian works so well in the lead role because he's manly, but also somewhat vulnerable; which makes the whole thing more believable. It's ironic that Italians tend to make better looking westerns than Americans, but this film helps to prove that irony. The sets do look rather cheap, but at the same time they ensure that Django Kill feels very much like it has been shot in the Wild West, and the environment brilliantly fits the characters. Probably the main reason why this film works so well is because the characters are well done. They're not exactly Shakespearian, but their motives and actions are always believable and because the supporting cast is so well done, it means that the situation that Django finds himself in the centre of is always interesting and engaging. On the whole, this is an excellent Spaghetti Western and one that comes highly recommended to fans of this sort of film.