Protraph Lack of good storyline.

SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

SteinMo What a freaking movie. So many twists and turns. Absolutely intense from start to finish.

Sam Panico In his very first line in the movie, Sartana paraphrases the Bible verse "I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners and need to repent" before killing a corrupt sheriff and two of his deputies. If I wasn't already excited about the fourth Sartana film, I'm now fully ready.Sartana turns himself in for their murders in order to get one of his old friends, Grandville Full, out of the corrupt jail, one so horrible that the wardens urinate onto men desperate for water. That friend I mentioned earlier - Grand Full for short - knows where a half million in gold and two million in counterfeit money is. But there are plenty of people after it too, like an evil widow (Nieves Navarro!), a one-eyed killer, another corrupt lawman and even a general gone deaf and mad.Like every Sartana movie, the only person you can trust is Sartana himself. The entire town of Mansfield is looking for the gold and ready to kill one another and anyone else that comes to visit. Like Mara Krupp, who pretty much plays the same horny hotel owner that she played in For a Few Dollars More.Well, maybe Pon Pon, an old friend and inventor, can be trusted. After all, he's invented a robot for Sartana named Alfie. Yep, in the middle of a spaghetti western, there's a robot. Welcome to the Sartana films! He's also building a giant organ for his dance hall, which he claims to be the reason why he needs the money.The scene where Alfie the robot blows up the sheriff, spraying out burning counterfeit money that Sartana lights a cigarette with while laughing? That's exactly why I love the Sartana series. They've moved from him as an angel of death to a detective with James Bond gadgets over the four Gianni Garko films.The finale, where the pipe organ is taken into the street, only for it to contain machine guns that mow down hundreds - if not more - soldiers and assorted killers, thieves and liars has to be seen to be believed.The music, by Bruno Nicolai, is great. He also scored plenty of Jess Franco films, as well as The Red Queen Kills Seven Times, All the Colors of the Dark, The Case of the Bloody Iris and so many more. Here, he continually brings back the haunting theme of Sartana and ups the intensity at the close of the film.Of the four Sartana films I've watched, this one is my favorite. Now, it's not the dark and realistic film that a Leone Western can be, but it has a charm and verve all its own. Also, I want a robot that lights my cigars like Alfie!

kathologist I didn't come in to this flick in the beginning. I came in somewhere's near the middle, the main character walking into a bar with a plinky plink piano playing...at various tempos...and a cut scene to him playing A PIPE ORGAN, in a horse barn. (yes, you read that right) A sub character, comes in from the back and eventually shows his little mech project (with a goofy name of course)- a badly stylized "tiki" head that rolls, stops, flips its lid and lights a lighter inside...My suspended disbelief was also suspended.Thanks, Sony for broadcasting barrel scrapers like this.I would call this more of a peyote western.

FightingWesterner Sartana infiltrates a sadistic frontier prison in order to bust out an inmate accused of stashing half a million dollars in gold. However, getting the inmate out proves to be easier than uncovering the whereabouts of the missing loot, located somewhere in a town full of crooked characters with shady intentions.Another fast-moving entry in the official Sartana series, starring Gianni Garko, there's a lot of twists and turns, with Sartana seemingly able to read minds, tell the future and see in all directions at once!There's loads of gun-play and a fairly interesting mystery regarding who exactly has the gold. It's not quite groundbreaking cinema, but it'll do.One gripe though, there isn't one single likable character in the whole movie, not even Sartana!

Woodyanders Wily roving gunslinger Sartana (a typically fine performance by Gianni Garko) kills three corrupt lawmen and has himself put in prison. Sartana escapes from jail with his equally shrewd partner Grand Full (well played by Piero Lulli), who knows where a fortune in both gold and counterfeit money is hidden. Naturally, several other treacherous folks also want to get their greedy hands on said fortune. Director Giuliano Carnimeo, working from a clever script by Tito Carpi, Ernesto Gastaldi, and Eduardo Manzanos Brochero, relates the tricky and absorbing story at a steady pace, maintains a suitably harsh and gritty tone through (the moments of sadistic violence and torture are pretty rough stuff), stages the exciting shoot-outs with considerable skill and brio, and further spices things up with a nice line in wickedly amusing sarcastic humor. The charismatic Garko truly shines in the lead; he receives able support from Lulli, the fetching Nieves Navarro as sly scheming widow Senora Manassas, Jose Jaspe as the vicious and unhinged General Monk, and Franco Pesce as a rascally, quick-witted old goat gambler. Moreover, this movie has a few nifty gimmicks which include a deadly organ and an equally lethal wind-up walking cigarette lighter. Both Julio Ortas' expansive widescreen cinematography and Bruno Nicolai's robust sweeping score are up to par. A very enjoyable film.