90
Metascore
7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Chicago ReaderDave KehrChicago ReaderDave KehrThough ordained from the beginning, the three-way showdown that climaxes the film is tense and thoroughly astonishing.
- 100Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonAn improbable masterpiece -- a bizarre mixture of grandly operatic visuals, grim brutality and sordid violence that keeps wrenching you from one extreme to the other.
- 100Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerSeattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerThere are two kinds of people, my friend. Those who love Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, and those who resist the machismo and gallows humor of what is arguably the definitive spaghetti western.
- 100Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrGorgeously stoic art film.
- 80TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineA massive, many-faceted film that continues to hold up, viewing after viewing.
- 70Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonAll told, and in giant widescreen, it's only blood-red adolescent fun, but it blooms like Douglas Sirk with a Gatling gun compared to the teenage demographic's current fare. Matrix, schmatrix: This is the season's supreme party movie.
- 60VarietyVarietyA curious amalgam of the visually striking, the dramatically feeble and the offensively sadistic.