Wow, this was really awful. Only reason I'm giving two stars instead of one, is because of Palance's deranged train wreck of a performance. You just keep on watching out of morbid curiosity, just to see how hysterically over-the-top he can go. Palance's performance has to rate as one of the greatest howlers and feats of absurd overacting ever put on celluloid. His performance is so bad, it makes Stephen Boyd's notoriously hopped-up performance in The Oscar seem subtle and understated by comparison. Palance doesn't just chew up the scenery, he gnaws on it with wild-eyed glee! Ugh. As for the rest of the movie, it's trite, tedious, and poorly made, and could have been written by a ten year old.
Review of The Desperados
