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4/10
Disappointing hokum
Leofwine_draca27 June 2015
DON'T WAIT, DJANGO...SHOOT! is a lame attempt to jump onto the Django bandwagon, and it's obvious from the outset that the main character's name has merely been changed to Django in post production in order to cash in on the success of the Franco Nero movie. It's nothing like a Django film at all, the titular character doesn't even wear the trademark clothing, and is instead a standard vengeance-seeking gunslinger.

The film opens as an elderly man is gunned down by a gang of Mexican cut-throats, leaving his grown up son and daughter seeking revenge for the crime. This revenge takes an inordinately long time to play out, with the running time interspersed with routine intrigue and some very unexciting shoot-outs.

One of the most interesting things about the production, for me, is the presence of Ivan Rassimov in the leading role. Rassimov is well known for his appearances in '70s movies like DEEP RIVER SAVAGES and it's fun to watching him play against his real-life sister, Rada, but he doesn't make much of an impression in this one. Pedro Sanchez has a supporting role and plays the usual larger-than-life character. The truth is that nobody's on fire here, particularly director Edoardo Mulargia who churned out at least a dozen of these cut-price spaghetti westerns.
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5/10
Low, Low budgeted Django clone fails to ignite.
hitchcockthelegend6 January 2017
Django (Ivan Rassimov) returns to the family home to find his father has been robbed and murdered by bandits. Ignoring the advice and pleas of his sister Mary (played by Rassimov's real life sister Rada), Django sets off to town for revenge. But this is merely the beginning of things...

There's enough enjoyment here for the very hardcore Spaghetti Western fan, but expectations levels really should be set at low. There's plenty of the standard Spag shootings, stand-offs and posturings, moody atmosphere and the music is pretty ace (Felice Di Stefano), but the structure of the pic is off.

Directed by Edoardo Mulargia and written by Vincenzo Musolino, the creators take a gamble by having the revenge aspect played out very early in the piece, the plot then thrusts a multitude of characters involved - in one way or another - in the search for the missing money taken when Django's pa was killed. The whole piece feels like a string of sequences stacked up against each other without a flowing sense of rhyme or reason. It doesn't help that this incarnation of Django is bland and it is in fact his side-kick Barrica (played by Ignazio Spalla) that engages more on the fun and entertainment front. The low budget shows on occasions (watch out for that deja vu feeling), whilst logic jumps and daftness are never far away.

Needlessly complex in telling and structure, pic is marginally saved by the action and some colourful characters, but really it is for those die-hard Spag fans only. 5/10
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5/10
Django's just waiting
Bezenby22 February 2017
This film should really be called Wait Django…just wait because that's what he does for most of the film! Periodically some guys turn up to be shot but it's all about the waiting.

Y'see, Django (this time played by Ivan "I'm a man, not a fish" Rassimov) is out for revenge after some bandits double cross his dad, steal his dad's money, then steal the money from themselves, then get themselves killed by another guy who steals his dad's money, then hides in a hotel with Django outside while some other guys come to Django's house and are all like 'where's Django at?', who then get themselves killed so some other guys turn up asking "Where's those guys at who were asking where Django's at?" and so on and so forth until just about everyone ends up dead.

Ivan and Rada Rassimov really look alike, eh? Never noticed that before. This one at least tries to be different, but in a rather uneventful way that must have saved a fortune on locations –Seriously, there's like four different locations here – Django's house, Bad guy number one's house, the village where the guy hides out, and bad guy number two's ranch. That's it! Thrown in a comic drunk guy, a fat sidekick and a whole lot of doing nothing and there's your film.

Good 'nervously tapping a silver dollar on a table' action though
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3/10
Spaghetti Western without the sauce
ndevans23 December 2010
Django (played by Ivan Rassimov in this incarnation) returns home to find out that his father has been killed, by local banditos, in a business deal gone wrong . Revenge is sworn, and a mixture of lone gun men, gang members and other assorted western types get involved with the search for a pouch of money, missing from the deal.

To me this film just seems to be a poor mans Leone flick. All of the elements are there, gunslinging good guy, evil gang leader, revenge, a general lack of respect for life by everyone, a Morrcone style score and stylistic cinematography. The problem is that none of it is up to the Dollars trilogy standard. Ivan Rassimov is no Clint Eastwood (or Franco Nero for that matter, the original Django), it has neither the pace nor timing of something like The Good, The Bad and the Ugly and the music is pretty much cookie-cutter Morricone, that seems to have come out a bit misshapen.

Another problem Django Don't Wait has is that it has too many characters, all of them who have their own agenda, making it a bit difficult to follow exactly what happens. The lack of action and over abundance of talking, and just general filler, is probably one of the reasons I did not want to put the effort into following the plot line.
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Amateur hour even by the Django clone standards.
chaos-rampant19 March 2009
Directod Eduardo Mulargio (as Edward G. Muller!) churned out a bunch of cheapie spaghetti westerns in the genre's heyday in the late 60's to early 70's. Don't Wait Django, Shoot is one of them, with Ivan Rassimov (as Sean Todd - the blue-eyed character actor mostly known for his roles as villain and psychopathic killer in gialli) in the role of Django Foster (he's got a surname too this go around!) trying to avenge the death of his father by a bunch of Mexican cut-throat extras with greasy faces. The production values are as low as you'd expect from a Django clone probably made in a week to turn in a quick buck, there's lots of non-acting going on, the dialogue is very poor and the script seems to have been conceived in one day and written in another. Entire scenes seem to exist for no other reason than to communicate a single line and the gunfighting is dime a dozen. The movie looks like it was shot 15 minutes from Rome instead of Arizona, Sonora or wherever it's suppose to take place. There are dozens more well made, more interesting, more entertaining spaghetti westerns out there and I'm not even talking about the A-list pictures of Leone, Corbucci or Sollima. This is a third-tier quickie at best and just not a good movie.
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2/10
Move along folks – there's nothing to see here
freydis-e21 May 2017
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After wasting 90 minutes watching this, I must be mad doing a review, but there are only seven others and one of them gives it a ten rating. Nice that the guy enjoyed it but can he not see that "A Fistful of Dollars", say, is maybe just a little bit better? Or does his amp go up to 11? Oh well, if I save one person from watching this, it will all be worthwhile.

I suggest reading the one critic review, which gives more than you need to know of the minimal excuse for a plot and points out that there's nothing remarkable here, either good or bad. That's indeed the main impression – just nothing. But it's worse than that – I swear no-one involved in making this even cared. The acting is nonexistent – only Django's sister and director Mulargia as a bad guy seem even to be trying. And OMG, the plot! We open with the murder of Django's father. Django shows up and on hearing this dreadful news, shows no emotion – but then he never does, whether because he's too tough for such trivia as feelings or, more likely, he knows he can't act so why bother to try? Revenge for a murdered father – the ultimate plot-driver in this macho world, but our hero gets that revenge 15 minutes in and the rest of the movie is about who gets some bag of money. So superior is our Django that no opponent or combination of opponents pose the least threat and the fight-scenes have no interest at all. In fact he has only one possible weakness – the sister. So what does he do? Of course – leaves her unguarded where all the bad guys know she is and goes to sit in the saloon doing nothing. And what happens next? Well, I wouldn't want to, er, spoil it for you (?!?)

The stuff the bad guys do makes no more sense. None of them go after the money, instead riding around killing one another off for reasons no-one ever bothers to explain. Had Django not showed up at all, it seems the outcome would have been much the same. If only he hadn't – then no-one would have had to watch this nonsense.
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4/10
Poor spaghetti western which brings nothing new to the table.
Red-Barracuda17 March 2017
Here is another film which gives the name Django to the title character as an after-thought, in order to cash in on the popularity of that spaghetti western series. In this one, a gang of bandits kill a man who turns out to be Django's father which of course turns out to be pretty bad news for those criminals in the long run. And there's some missing money, or something.

This one stars Ivan Rassimov in the title role, yet he was completely unrecognisable here to me, so much so I thought there must have been a mistake in the credits here. Needless to say it turns out it was Rassimov but I guess he didn't make too much of an impression here, which is surprising given how memorable he was in some later 70's giallo flicks. I guess the western genre just wasn't too suited to him really. Much better was his sister Rada, who would also go on to appear in a prominent giallo, namely Dario Argento's Cat o' Nine Tails (1971). The reason I think I am rambling on about other movies is that this flick was so incredibly forgettable. Like many standard Italian westerns it contains nothing new or very interesting and instead just gives us more of the same. This isn't always a bad thing of course but when it's delivered in such an under par manner it gets old pretty quick. This one is strictly for die-hard fans of this sub-genre.
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4/10
At least Ivan Rassimov is in it!
BandSAboutMovies19 August 2020
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Anyone upset about the continuity issues of the Halloween movies should sit down and watch some Italian Westerns, where characters may or may not be the same actor or even the same character from film to film.

Django is the best example, with two official films (Django, Django Strikes Again), a remake (Django Unchained) and nearly forty unofficial movies, including this one. Of these films, experts believe that only Django, Prepare a Coffin is a semi-official, legitimate sequel, as it was originally intended to star Nero.

In this film, Django Foster comes home to find his father dead and the family's fortune stolen. The role is played by Sean Todd, but come on. We all know that that Americanized stage name can only be Ivan Rassimov. His sister Rada is also in this film as is Ignazio Spalla from the Sabata series.

This film was directed by Edoardo Mulargia, who would go on one day to make the movies Orinoco: Prigioniere del sesso, which was re-edited and released in the U.S. as the Linda Blair-starring Savage Island.

Mulargia would also make Cjamango with Rassimov and Mickey Hargitay, as well as W Django! and Shango with Anthony Steffen. Obviously, he really liked Django or at least the money that came from making people think his movies were actual sequels.
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2/10
Way too many subplots without revelations the reason why producers should stay away from the directors chair
jordondave-2808516 December 2023
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(1967) Don't Wait, Django...Shoot!/ Non aspettare Django, spara DUBBED SPAGHETTI WESTERN

Produced and written by Vincenzo Musolino and directed by Edoardo Mulargia directing a movie that consists of many subplots that I needed to watch it more than once to make sense about what I was watching. It opens with a guy riding a horse and carriage with a few gun men behind being stopped by Navarro (César Ojinaga) and his deadly gang of marauders. He is then being accused of not receiving the horses for a guy name Don Alvaro (Gino Buzzanca) had paid for, but it was quite obvious he is being accused of this so that Navarro could just find an excuse to gun him and take the money. It is soon revealed later that the guy who was killed at the opening along with some nobody's, his son happens to be Django (Ivan Rassimov) and is seeking retribution, encouraging his sister Mary (Rada Rassimov) and his Uncle Danny (Giovanni Sabbatini) to stay and stick this out. The next scene has the time at night time with Navarro screaming about this son, Chico stealing the money from him and orders his gunmen to kill his son to get the money back. And just when Navarro with some men leaves his compound is coincidentally during the time when Django shows up. And with the remaining gun men Navarro left behind, Django succeeds in shooting and killing all six of them all at the same time. The movie then changes to the daytime again with Navarro standing over the dead body of his son, and his men holding some of the villagers at gun point demanding the identity of the culprit that killed his son. And it was at this point is when Navarro begins shooting the men at the back, and it was also during at that time is when Django finally shows up and begin killing some of Navarro's gun men. Leaving Navarro with 4 or five men confronting Django for a final standoff. And of course, Django succeeds in killing all of them including Navarro being the last person to die. You know at the opening, my initial thought was that Django was seeking retribution for his dad's death, but then it changes it's focus on to the money that was stolen from him before he was murdered, we find out it was 10,000 in gold, Django was attempting to retrieve with the help of a another new character, Juan Jose Vasquuez (Pedro Sanchez) or Barrica for short helping him to achieve this feat. And during this transition, Don Alvaro's right hand man, Johnny and Alvaro's gunmen are now looking for Django. We also find out that another gunman named Grey/ Gray (Celso Faria) killed his partner in cold blood so that he can keep all the money to himself. He happens to be the culprit who shot and killed Navarro's son, Chico to steal the money, who lives with a brothel, Judy. By the time Don Alvaro's four gunmen show up at the village, they end up shooting and killing some nobody's before turning their attention toward Django. Both and he and Barriga (Juan Jose Vasquez) manage to shoot and kill all four of them, and when Don Alvaro hears about this, he then sends for a much deadlier gunman named Pondo (Bill Jackson). And the first thing he does when he shows up under the direction of Don Alvaro is he rides out to the property where Django's sister and uncle reside at. He first kills uncle Danny in cold blood after he catches him to reach for his rifle, and kidnaps Django's sister, Mary. At the same time, all of this is happening while Django is still at the village attempting to retrieve his father's money, suddenly Don Alvaro now believes is still owed to him. Because Grey knows how good Django is with a gun, he then gets his girlfriend involve by letting her carry the money the next time the stagecoach stops by at the village. But when she attempts to sneak the bagful of money into the stagecoach, is when Barriga grabs the money from her hands, and scaring the stagecoach to ride off. And once Django retrieves his bag back, it is then interrupted by one of Don Alvaro's men to bring the bag to him he can have his sister back. While waiting around, Pondo/ Hondo then decides to shoot and kill Don Alvaro as well as the remaining men he had left. First taking all the money in Don's possession before Django shows up confronting Pondo and his four men. And just when you think that the bad guy Pondo had the upper hand by taking both the gun and the bagful of money, it is during then Barriga shows up with a horse carriage throwing Django an extra gun. He uses it, of course, killing all of the men with Pondo being the last one to be killed. We wondered how Barriga was able to survive point blank shots from Pondo's gun after ducking inside Don Almaro's house. And it was because Barriga was wearing a steal armor that is similar to a knight. Django gets to reunite with his only living relative, Nancy as well as the money and more. The end!!

This is one of the worse Spaghetti Western movies I've seen, the reason why producers should never engage into writing his own screenplay, this producer very well may have also directed his own movie. Because you can tell, that many scenes and sequences were compromised if actors were uncredited for their scenes, leaving viewers with many unanswered questions, and making the overall experience to be inconsistent.
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6/10
Don't Wait Django...Shoot is an average to slightly above-average addition to the western genre
kevin_robbins16 January 2024
I recently watched Don't Wait Django...Shoot (1967) on Tubi. The storyline revolves around Django's father getting killed in a business deal gone wrong. When Django returns home, chaos ensues.

Directed by Edoardo Mulargia (Shango) and featuring Ivan Rassimov (The Humanoid), Ignazio Spalla (Sabata), Rada Rassimov (The Good, The Bad and The Ugly), and Marisa Traversi (Flashman).

The film offers a classic Django experience complemented by an excellent Italian spaghetti western soundtrack. The settings, attire, and props were meticulously chosen, creating a visually immersive experience. The shootouts and action scenes were well-executed, contributing to the film's solid appeal. While the storyline is somewhat cliché, it remains enjoyable to watch unfold.

In conclusion, Don't Wait Django...Shoot is an average to slightly above-average addition to the western genre. I would give it a 5.5/10 and strongly recommend it for fans of the Django series.
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4/10
Mostly forgettable
pmtelefon18 June 2022
"Don't Wait, Django...Shoot!" is a great looking movie. It has has some great colors. It almost looks like a Hammer movie. Unfortunately, the look of the movie is undermined by a weak script. There was a bunch of time where I wasn't even sure what was going on. "Don't Wait, Django...Shoot!" does scratch the spaghetti western itch but it's not very good.
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10/10
Very good Spaghetti Western
garko809 July 2004
This Spaghetti Western from Mulargia is a very nice B-Movie with good actors, music and atmosphere.

The most time of the movie is placed in a little town and that is very good for the atmosphere of the movie. Ivan Rassimov is very good in the part of Django and also Petro Sanchez is a very good partner for him. Rassimov's sister plays his real sister Rada. You can also see the writer and director Vincenzo Musolino in the part of Hondo. The great score is composed by Felice Di Stefano who also composed a few other scores for Mulargia and Musolino.

All in all this Western is a great B-Movie and a must see for Spaghetti fans.
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