FOUR PISTOLS FOR TRINITY is a cheap spaghetti western largely set in and around a single building where a bunch of mysterious characters are holed up, some of them with sinister purposes. The background is all about land grabbing and arms trafficking, and at times it feels more like a mystery than a western although the stock shoot-outs are included to keep audiences involved.
Watching it nowadays you can't help but be reminded of Tarantino's HATEFUL EIGHT, which itself was a flawed film but at least one that was better made and had more potential than this occasionally lifeless effort. The problem with FOUR PISTOLS FOR TRINITY is the lack of characterisation which means you don't really care what happens to any of those involved. Peter Lee Lawrence was well acquainted with the spaghetti western genre but his character here is a bore and the likes of Ida Galli and Raf Baldassarre are wasted. It's not the worst film ever made but you can do so much better in this genre.
Watching it nowadays you can't help but be reminded of Tarantino's HATEFUL EIGHT, which itself was a flawed film but at least one that was better made and had more potential than this occasionally lifeless effort. The problem with FOUR PISTOLS FOR TRINITY is the lack of characterisation which means you don't really care what happens to any of those involved. Peter Lee Lawrence was well acquainted with the spaghetti western genre but his character here is a bore and the likes of Ida Galli and Raf Baldassarre are wasted. It's not the worst film ever made but you can do so much better in this genre.