Eight western characters shoot it out over a female prisoner. One of them is the bounty hunter who wants to collect. Another is the new sheriff on his way to his new job. The black guy is an ex-Union soldier who has become a bounty hunter himself. One more is a Southern Colonel who is in search of his son. The rest are bandits in disguise looking to free the female prisoner. All of them get stranded by a snowstorm in a store on the way to town.
The spaghetti western is good enough. But then the movie tries to be something it is not. It tries to also be a patriotic movie about the civil war. Yet this theme is superimposed rather sloppily and unnecessarily. In the end, the cooperation on the hanging of the female bounty by the black veteran and the white racist sheriff doesn't need to be a symbol of the unity of the black and white races as citizens of the nascent country joining together to lynch those who truly deserve it instead of blacks. It can just be what it is: a revenge hanging by two hard-core westerners who are near death.
The best feature of this movie is the stunning cinematography --- which needs no shaky hand (as is the current questionable fashion) to make it outstanding.
Review by ltcomdataBlockedParentSpoilers2016-04-24T20:34:42Z
Eight western characters shoot it out over a female prisoner. One of them is the bounty hunter who wants to collect. Another is the new sheriff on his way to his new job. The black guy is an ex-Union soldier who has become a bounty hunter himself. One more is a Southern Colonel who is in search of his son. The rest are bandits in disguise looking to free the female prisoner. All of them get stranded by a snowstorm in a store on the way to town.
The spaghetti western is good enough. But then the movie tries to be something it is not. It tries to also be a patriotic movie about the civil war. Yet this theme is superimposed rather sloppily and unnecessarily. In the end, the cooperation on the hanging of the female bounty by the black veteran and the white racist sheriff doesn't need to be a symbol of the unity of the black and white races as citizens of the nascent country joining together to lynch those who truly deserve it instead of blacks. It can just be what it is: a revenge hanging by two hard-core westerners who are near death.
The best feature of this movie is the stunning cinematography --- which needs no shaky hand (as is the current questionable fashion) to make it outstanding.