SparkMore n my opinion it was a great movie with some interesting elements, even though having some plot holes and the ending probably was just too messy and crammed together, but still fun to watch and not your casual movie that is similar to all other ones.

Humaira Grant It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Benas Mcloughlin Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

Johnboy1221 This has got to be one of the worst spaghetti westerns I've ever seen! Need an explanation? Here are my reasons: 1. The combination of hard rock and a western does not work. It's a constant irritation for me, and extremely extracting.2. Lou Castel has never really impressed me, and he certainly doesn't here. He's a one-dimensional character, at best.3. Almost no one ever gets shot in the film, they just turn up as a dead body, after the shooting stops. What's that all about? 4. Some characters just disappear from sight, leaving the impression that they are dead.5. The so-called fancy (spinning) camera work just wears me out! What were they trying to say? Incredibly inane! 6. Boomerangs! Innovative? No, silly would be a better word for it! How tiring! 7. The acting, story, and execution of this piece of fluff is bottom-feeder stuff.8. It is like watching a group of crazed lunatics, heading for the border, but ending up in a dried-up desert ghost town. (I can only stand so much of watching lunatics like these do stupid things to one another).9. I'm not knocking the music, it was good, but it belongs in a different movie.10. Trust me. You have been warned. This movie is a mess.

CelluloidRehab Six years after Sergio Leone's A Fist Full of Dollars created the term "spaghetti western" and the passing of the San Fransisco acid wave of the 60's, someone thought it would be a good idea to combine the two. It would be a showcase for the international talents of Bolivian born actor Lou Castel, Argentinian actor Luis Davila (a.k.a - Luis Devil), Zaire born actress Claudia Gravy, the Italian Corrado Pani and directed by Cesare Canevari. For those familiar with the sultry naiveté of Emmanuelle, Canevari was the director of the first. If you haven't guessed so far, this is all a recipe for disaster.Speaking with "J" (a friend and I don't mean the John Malkovich currently residing inside of Will Smith) about my reviews, he suggested I should make them my own somehow. I thought I had already done that, but it got me to thinking. I'm not sure if anyone has used this concept before, but here goes. I could rate movies based on a "shot scale". That would be the amount of shots required to enjoy or completely forget about the movie in question. It would only be in use for what I consider to be bad movies (also includes the "good-bad"). So for example, Matalo would require me to down 7 shots of Jagermeister, SoCo (minus lime) or Gentleman Jim D (or a combination of all 3 that would total 7 shots still). So the higher the "shot count", the worse the movie (inverse order to the normal scale). Now back to Matalo.The whole plot of the movie revolves loosely around the heist of a United States official luggage from a stagecoach in the middle of the desert. We don't get to this point until about 1/2 way through the movie, however. The main character loves the smell of gunpowder, money and women. From the predictable "gore" introduction, I was getting an uneasy feeling in my gut and it wasn't because of the two shots I had quickly guzzled. The "gore" is quite light (even by 1970 standards) and seems almost melodramatically over-theatrical. For an action western, the action is as lively as the ghost town backdrop ; squeaky, rundown, dusty, but with lots of water. I have never seen the desert and water concept/metaphor driven this much into the ground, yet with as little emotion (or sweat) as possible. The director was obviously very influenced by Chappaqua and other "psychedelic" films, as he over uses their effects ad nauseam (literally sometimes). I mean how many times can we show spinning, Outer Limit's tilted framings, and close-ups of thespians with goofy expressions? This is a poor, drunk, blind and deaf man's version of El Topo. It's an Italian import, but definitely not a Ferrari.90 minutes of that, mixed in with bare-bones dialog and acting (the dialog and acting in this movie share a border with pantomime) is too long I think. The plot could help, right? Not really. Characters coming out of the desert can't help this one, either. The acid rock soundtrack is actually not too bad, however, it is metaphorically alone in the desert with no water. I felt like I was watching Sergio Leone's evil hack clone remaking Tell Your Children (Reefer Madness) for posterity. It's really a smelly, decaying carcass that one million boomerangs cannot save, but it is still in the desert. If you're going to go there, bring the essentials (drugs/alcohol and a gun to shoot yourself afterwards). If you heed my advice, seek Django.

steeplejack17 I loved the score by Mario Migilardi. Overall this movie for me was a major disappointment. The script was very weak, bad acting with the exception of Lou Castel who played a great role as the boomerang slinging son of a preacher, who is in the wrong place at the wrong time. The Mary character was great how she seduced and would do anything for wealth. I think the movie tried to hard to be like Django Kill it was more weak than surreal. It was Corrado Pani (Bart) in his only role in the genre and we can see why good looking but bad acting! You have an old lady struggling to grasp Benson Town is a ghost town but she hangs around waiting for a stranger like Castel to bring life back there which he denies the offer. The gold just slips away on a donkey nobody wants it except mortally wounded Bart who rides after it...okay!!! Wow, I am shocked there was no Matalo (2). Last thing did Mary and Philip die from the camera spinning around and around or by bullets??? I almost passed out from 2 minutes of brilliant camera work!

Mario Pio i LIKE MOVIES THAT MAKE ME STRANGE SENSATION!According to Mereghetti's dictionary of movies, this western is "as a Leone at last in mescalina" and with some moments that reminds Monte Hellman's movies for the use of the empty moments. This movie seems to me an august nightmare, with the hot, the desolation and the wonderful state of madness that characterized the end of the summer. Also notable is the score of Mario Mingardi, a mix of Jimi Hendrix and Luciano Berio, with electronics that supplies dialogues. I think that in western there is nothing like the duel of Matalo, a pistol against boomerangs! Recommended for all who like strange movies in the heart of the night with a little drop of alcohol or something else!