Keoma (DVD) Reviews


Newest Review: ... sent through the clever camera work and haunting and provoking musical score. You do need to keep watching and ... more
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Customer Keoma (DVD) Reviews (2)

by - written on 17/05/09 (Very useful, 55 readings)
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I saw this film advertised on one of the many film channels that come free with the standard Sky package: you know, movies4men or truemovies, or something like that. There was a time I wouldn't have watched it, as the older Westerns have never really had a great appeal to me as such. However, I watched Once Upon A Time in the West a few weeks ago and, having read Berlioz II's review on this Keoma, I decided to sit through it regardless of my initial thoughts and watch the whole thing. I'm glad I did. The one thing I can say for sure is that the theme of the drifter returning after the Civil War to find his home town run to the ground by a greedy businessman is ... Read the complete review

by - written on 07/05/09 (Very useful, 103 readings)
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Widely considered as the last great spaghetti western, Enzo G. Castellari's Keoma - il Vendicatore largely spelled the end for a genre of films that had been riding a wave of huge popularity since Sergio Leone's 1964 A Fistful of Dollars became such a huge hit. What came after Keoma were mostly middling flops, trying to still light some fire to the embers of a once so prolific and popular genre, but failing to ignite much interest anymore past the odd curiosity. It was the death of a style of films that had over the span of a decade seen some true masterpieces, and even more truly crappy exercises in greed and unskilled enthusiasm. And ironically, Castellari's name can .. Read the complete review



