Watched Keoma today from the Argent Films Cult Spaghetti Western boxset and I have a new hero. Franco Nero is fantastic as Keoma a knife weilding, gunsligning, fist fighting old west cow boy.
It's such a great film, it has a pretty simple revenge based plot, but is shot beautifully by Enzo G. Castelliari, the scene near the end in the rain is particuarly stunning. I think I even prefer this to Leone's westerns. One of the thing I like most about Keoma was the way the flash backs were handled, they seemed more like charaters memories than flash backs. Also the action is great, plenty of fist fights and gun battles to keep things interesting.
[b]Keoma is an all round fantastic spagehtti western. I cant wait to check out Franco Nero in Django now as well as the third film in the set A Bullet For The General. Hopefully they'll both be as good as Keoma
Last edited by BioZombie; 16th July 2010 at 08:57 PM.
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