Day of Anger

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This Is A S This isn't a hunk of cheese, it's a cheese platter. But the bad guys are worth rooting against, the scenery is gorgeous and the story is fun. Lee Van Cleef is enjoying every second. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/30/25 Full Review Dwayne C Gotta luv a good Italian western! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 08/03/24 Full Review Audience Member Well worth a watch James Welch, Henderson, Arkansas, June 7, 2023 Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 06/09/23 Full Review Taylor L "There's nobody out here left to be killed in your place!" For decades, people acted as if John Wayne was the biggest name in Westerns, Mr. Big Studio, big-talking Big Jake. Then, audiences took a shine to the silent Clint Eastwood and the wave of movies coming out of Italy, but most of the classics are remakes of Kurosawa films. Now, it's clear that Lee Van Cleef was the man all along - calm, cool, and collected, never a hero, always with an edge. Day of Anger was a big disappointment for me. It's got outlaw Talby (Van Cleef) taking in a young runt (Giuliano Gemma, of Ringo fame) as his rough-and-tumble gunfighter protégé, Scott. That's awesome, and Talby as a character is great - teaching brutal 'lessons' to his pupil as he becomes a hard-nosed killer, only to inevitably find himself on the other end of those deadly pointers later in the film. Unfortunately, there's a lot more in the mix that makes the winning premise feel unwieldy, particularly an unnecessarily long runtime, a whole conspiracy angle that allows Talby to gain control over a whole town, and bad action choreography. Scott is hard to root for as a protagonist because he is so comically looked down on throughout most of the movie, with virtually every person in town looking for any excuse to punch and spit on him for virtually no reason. Plus, some of the visual design is questionable - Talby's saloon is gaudy and dumb with the massive gold guns out front, makes the story feel fake through visual cues alone. Van Cleef is great, but simple themes and a lot of misguided fluff make what should have been a Spaghetti classic into a bloated mess. (3/5) Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/07/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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