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Duck, You Sucker (1971)

Rate: 2
Viewed: 10/14

10/14: I hate Sergio Leone's pictures with passion.

They represent the worst of cinema. Oh, how he abuses every filmmaking technique there is. Duck, You Sucker, aka A Fistful of Dynamite, Once Upon a Time ... the Revolution, or whatever the fuck the title is supposed to be, never deviates from his formula: long dragged-out scenes, interminable stares, irrelevant scenes, millions of facial close-ups, dated explosions, anachronisms in apparel and weaponry, a plot that keeps going nowhere, senseless violence, pointless moments, childish dialogue, and primitive human behavior.

Nobody ever acts like the idiots in his films. Rod Steiger's performance is modeled after a testosterone-filled baboon, and James Coburn has a fetish for flashing his teeth. Having been exasperated already, I couldn't watch Duck, You Sucker for more than fifteen minutes at a time. This plodder took me five days to complete.

All in all, Duck, You Sucker is a prime candidate for research to find out if watching Sergio Leone's movies can cause Alzheimer's disease.

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