Six Bounty Killers for a Massacre (1973) User Reviews

Terrible.

[hambone-69699 · 3/10 · 9 December 2022]

As a fan of the genre, this is the worst I've seen. Lazy production, terrible acting from the extras, and a story that forgets that it's being told. Other later period Spaghetti Westerns tried new things, and went deeper into their characters. Two stellar examples are 'Keoma' and 'California'.

This one chose the opposite route, digressing towards a pre-spaghetti style, which is incredibly boring and completely pointless in every way.

If you're new to Italian Westerns please don't bother, there's literally hundreds of better options. If you some how stumbled across this movie, don't let it sully your opinion of the genre, check out some better movies.

Six Dunce Killers for a Massacre

[Oslo_Jargo · 2/10 · 12 May 2024]

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

*Plot and ending analyzed*

Well, this is a terribly incomprehensible and incoherent Italian Western. It seems to have been made by someone who had no idea how to put together a story that the audience could understand. What they did was assemble a bunch of long and tedious scenes in the hopes that it would all miraculously come together. A bunch of lifeless characters are brought into the picture and you don't know who is who, nor will you actually care. And this goes on for one hour and twenty minutes. The movie is only one hour and twenty seven minutes. So seven minutes for the big "pay off", and they even botched that.

The plot, if there is a resemblance of one, has some man and his henchmen attack some armed and guarded carriage, and kidnapping a woman and her child. Apparently they are the governor's family. So he hires a cadre of bounty killers with the most ridiculous names, and equally ridiculous attributes.

The acting is atrocious, the music is lousy and repetitive, and it is so drudgingly long.

What to look out for:

A henchman wearing the same poncho that Clint Eastwood wore in A Fistful of Dollars (1964).

A man who has the worst fake "hook for a hand".

A henchman getting a knife in the front of his skull.