Bleak, violent, and well-photographed, Keoma is heavily atmospheric. However, all the pain and intense guilt that saturates the film, as well as the blood, dust, and mud make one want to take a shower after watching it.
Franco Nero is always good. Here, he looks like a brooding, six foot pile of hair with piercing blue eyes and a hat, looking down on an old west that often times looks as if it had been hit by an atomic bomb and populated by mean-spirited, hate-filled, subhuman characters.
Though not a boring or bad movie, it's awfully pretentious and a sharp left turn from director Enzo G. Castellari's usually light-hearted approach to the genre, in such films as Any Gun Can Play, Payment In Blood, and Kill Them All And Come Back Alone.
Franco Nero is always good. Here, he looks like a brooding, six foot pile of hair with piercing blue eyes and a hat, looking down on an old west that often times looks as if it had been hit by an atomic bomb and populated by mean-spirited, hate-filled, subhuman characters.
Though not a boring or bad movie, it's awfully pretentious and a sharp left turn from director Enzo G. Castellari's usually light-hearted approach to the genre, in such films as Any Gun Can Play, Payment In Blood, and Kill Them All And Come Back Alone.