FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

elvircorhodzic DJANGO is a Spaghetti Western film, that sets the cruelty and the violence to a whole new level. This film has some kind of a surrealist direction. Muddy streets, violent gunfight, massacre and mutilation fully correspond with the dark atmosphere and rather simple (Yojimbo) story in this film. A harsh and explicit dialogue usually ends with a violent murder. Mr. Corbucci skillfully avoids melodrama, hence this one-way street reminiscent of a war zone from which no one will come out whole. The motives like a revenge, gold, revolution and political radicalism, bordering on racism are sufficient for an energetic plot.A mysterious man named Django arrives in a Mexican border dragging a small coffin behind him. When he saves a woman who is being attacked by a group of bandits, he finds himself in the middle of a conflict between Mexican gangsters and racist Yankee thugs. The two come in a small town, which is a sort of neutral zone between the two sides. A local bartender thinks that their presence will bring more trouble to him and his prostitutes. Shortly thereafter, Django confronts with a small group of Yankee thugs. He challenges their leader to return with all of his accomplices. The barmen predicts Django's death. However, a small coffin keeps a large and deadly secret...I think, that an excessive violence destroys all credibility of the story in this film. A visual impression in combination with a very good soundtrack is very impressive. The characterization is not bad, especially if we consider an almost grotesque romance.Franco Nero as Django is a blue-eyed beauty with clear objectives. He is ruthless until the moment when he realizes that mere coincidence can change his plans. His appearance is striking, however, Franco Nero did not offer a good performance. Loredana Nusciak as María is a very brave woman who is tortured on all sides. Her emotions are muted to the limits of despair.Their support are José Bódalo as General Hugo Rodríguez who must choose between his greed and revolution, Eduardo Fajardo as Major Jackson as a racist, who is strong on words and Ángel Álvarez as Nathaniel is a bartender who witnesses the madness that surrounds him.

info-5918 I think for its time, Django would have been great, but a lot of the style and ideas have been copied by a lot of look-alikes, that it probably doesn't look at edgey that it did at its time.Clearly, the copy cat films made after it, by directors other than corbucci, show that it was something that had an impact, and was successful that other people wanted to emulate it.Production values (as with many Spaghetti Westerns) aren't great, and clearly made on a low budget. One of the shots in the western bar fight has a camera crew clearly in shot, and the sets are minimal.Storyline wise, its fun and a bit out there, though a bit similar to "a fist full of Dollars", released 2 years before. The dialogue (though possibly better in its original Italian, as I've only seen the English dub) is a bit clichéd and basic. Watching the main deal with situations having to lug around a heavy coffin is certainly not your average plot device.Franco Nero does a great job as the hero, and is a solid actor, only let down by some of the dialogue he has to work with.Overall, worth a watch, but in the Western Genre, not in the same league as the classic Ford Westerns and, I'd put him next best to Sergio Leone "Man with no Name" series.

velocityonhorizont Overrated spaghetti western movie. This movie have predictable and boring plot. There is no blood effect on bodies stricken. Dubbing Italian language is very bad. Everybody had same accent, even Mexicans. Belove average actors. Main role Django killing five villains in eye to eye combat.That is not realistic. Only town looks realistic for western films times. I was watched this film about 55 minutes, I really can't longer because that suppose to be torturing for me. I really cannot believe how somebody can give full 10 or nine for movie like this. They really shouldn't wrote reviews for movies. If you don't know what is good or what is bad movie please don't writing reviews anymore!!!

zardoz-13 Sergio Corbucci's third Spaghetti western "Django" has spawned at least thirty imitations. Indisputably, this ranks as Franco Nero's most memorable role, though he acquitted himself admirably in his other Corbucci Spaghettis, most remarkably "The Mercenary." Indeed, Nero cuts a striking figure decked out in Union blue, with a Gothic-looking, wooden coffin that he drags behind him wherever he walks. Django is a wizard with a six-gun. A little over half an hour into the action, Django produces a deadly machine gun from the coffin and decimates Major Jackson's ruffians. Luis Bacalov's orchestral music is as good as anything that Ennio Morricone ever composed for Sergio Leone. The thematic title song resembles something you'd hear in a 1950s era western where title tunes seemed mandatory. Rocky Roberts warbles the tune that provides biographical information about poor Django, his long-lost love, and the likelihood sunshine will follow showers. Nobody escapes fate in "Django." Women are whipped savagely by merciless brutes. Men are beaten, mutilated, and often gunned down in cold blood. One has to eat his own ear after a Mexican slices it off and jams it in his mouth. Murder seems like a reflex action. At least, as many as nine gunmen bite the dust before eight minutes have elapsed. Trust is a commodity rarely shared, unless Django is doing the sharing. Essentially, Sergio Corbucci and his brother Bruno penned the screenplay, with three other scribes, Franco Rossetti, José Gutiérrez Maesso, and Piero Vivarelli. "Django" pits racist Americans against the greedy Mexicans searching for gold to buy an arsenal of guns. Major Jackson rides herd over the Americans, while Hugo dresses like a general at the head of his make-shift army of outlaws. Django, Major Jackson, and General Hugo constitute the chief characters in this revenge-driven drama.After the opening credits sequence with our hero trudging through the mud, "Django" opens at a rope bridge over a quicksand pit at the border. Four Mexicans tie up a white woman, Maria (Loredana Nusciak of "Gladiators 7"), before they administer lashes with a bullwhip. Suddenly, as the Mexican is about to deliver the twelfth lash, five hombres with red scarves drop the Hispanics in a hail of gunfire. They cut the woman loose, and they plan to dispose of her anyway. Django guns them down before they can hurt her. One survives, and Django shoots him. The poor wretch vanishes in a quicksand pit. Django escorts Maria to town. He enters a saloon that doubles as a bordello. Nathaniel the Bartender (Ángel Álvarez of "Navajo Joe") initially refuses to let Maria spend the night. Django intervenes and pays for her room. Nathaniel describes the town as "neutral." He explains they must try to please both Major Jackson's Southerners and Hugo's banditos. "But for the privilege of staying alive we sure pay dearly." Meantime, Major Jackson (Eduardo Fajardo of "The Mercenary") abhors Mexicans. When we first see him, he is shooting Mexican peasants down in cold blood. He has them lined up in a stable and releases one at the time to run. The sadistic Jackson waits until the Mexicans have scrambled to comparative safety before he brings them down with his long-barreled Winchester repeating rifle. At the bar, Jackson confronts Django with four pistoleros. Django guns them down in heartbeat, even Ringo (José Terrón of "For A Few Dollars More") who stood behind him! Nevertheless, Django doesn't shoot Jackson. Instead, he lets Jackson live and challenges him to return with all of his men.Eventually, when Jackson returns with his army, Django pulls out a machine gun and mows them down. Jackson flees in humiliation. He falls off his horse and gets mud smeared over his face. Ironically, he is no longer white-skinned, the epitome of everybody he hates. Later, Django joins forces with General Hugo Rodriguez. They know each other, and Hugo knows Django is a desperado. The General (José Bódalo of "Companeros") requires money for guns so he can win the revolution. Django convinces him to rob the Major of his fortune and wipe out the Mexican soldiers with whom the Southerner is working. Afterward, Hugo refuses to divide the loot up with Django. Django insists Hugo hand him his share. Hugo stonewalls Django. Instead, he shows Django where the gold will be held. Later that night, Django fools everybody into believing that he is having sex with a beautiful girl while he is lugging his coffin to the room where the gold is stored. This has got to be the most unwieldy thing in this western. Django has to climb and cross roofs with the coffin in his clutches lest it give him away. This wrinkle in the plot resembles the last quarter hour of "For A Few Dollars More." Django rigs up a booby trap toward the end when he swipes the gold. He fixes the machine gun to pour out a burst of fire. Of course, the machine gun couldn't have fired as many rounds as the one in "Django." After Hugo has his men smash Django's hands, he rides into an ambush courtesy of Major Jackson and the Mexican cavalry. The final shoot-out at the cemetery is memorable.Sergio Corbucci did more things than Sergio Leone ever dreamed of with the American western. Corbucci borrows a similar script element from Leone when the hero is beaten savagely. Although the Clint Eastwood character suffered damage over most of his body, the Mexicans confine themselves to smashing Django's hands. Despite having his hands broken, our resourceful hero survives the fray. Indeed, this is no picnic for our hero who is forged in a fire. After the robbery, the plot veers toward a "For A Few Dollars More" scene. Jackson's men look truly distinctive in their scarlet hoods. "Django" qualifies as a classic Spaghetti western!