Comparison to 'Fistful of Dollars' and 'Yojimbo'

One of Kurosawa’s masterpiece Yojimbo is a movie dealing with his favorite subject – a Japanese history. Although its historical context, some critics clamed it was a metaphor of a cold war between US and Soviet Union, and some of them that it was a western-parody. In any case, this action drama is an excellent movie working fine on many levels, for both the critics and the wider audience.

However, Leone’s piece was loved by audience but ignored by the critics at first, mostly because of his two-dimensional characters. But the review during the years changed that opinion, and today it’s a known fact that no one dealt better with that types of characters than Leone. His cartoon characters most of the cartoon-haters love to watch. However, this part of the ‘Man with no name’ trilogy is considered to be the weakest part, but still a solid spaghetti western.

The ‘Last man standing’ is the worst of these three films by far. Seems that Walter Hill has lost his touch from the seventies and eighties. The movie is directed as a routine and the same goes for the leading actors. Christopher Walken is standard Christopher Walken, and Willis’ character reminds me of the comic character Torpedo. But the routine of the director is below average.


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