Review of Dollar for the Dead

Brooding Young Gun, Emilio Estevez is a taciturn treat as the Leone Wolf, lightning-fast, coffin-draggin' nameless outlaw in director, Gene Quintano's super stylish Spaghetti savoured shoot 'em up! Robust widescreen performances from, Ed Lauter, William Forsythe, Jonathan Banks, a rousing, playfully Morricone'd score by, George S. Clinton, bone dry badinage, an abundance of slo-mo bullet-blasted action makes the entertainingly rough n' tumbleweed 'Dollar For The Dead' (1998) worth its weight in gold! While this is quite plainly a loving tribute to maestros, Sergio Corbucci and Sergio Leone, Quintano's witty, hugely likeable western has a dynamite personality all of its very own, and it was additionally lovely to see Euro-cult legend, Simón Andreu as slick hombre, Akers. A feature-packed Blu-ray restoration of this kinetic western is LONG OVERDUE as its ignominious relegation to bargain-binned DVD collections is wholly undeserved!!!