MartinHafer This is not really a Sabata film, but often Italian westerns pretended to be sequels just to get unwitting customers to come to see the films*. For example, Franco Nero's "Django" was very successful so practically every Italian film producer brought out a Django film but with a different leading man--and a completely different plot! Here, cashing in on the Sabata craze (small as it was), a non-Sabata film starring Yul Brynner is suddenly a Sabata film thanks to dubbing! In fact, originally, Brynner's character was called 'Indigo Black'. I checked and there were seven Sabata films--only two which are REAL Sabata films with Lee Van Cleef. The rest, like "Adios Sabata" are just rip-offs. So is this a BAD rip-off or a decent and watchable rip-off? Read on to see...The plot of this film is close to that of a real Sabata film in that although he looks mean and shoots people by the score, this incarnation finds him doing this in order to help the Mexican Civil War of 1867. Now that doesn't mean he won't take a percentage for himself as well! A percentage of what you may ask....GOLD. It seems an evil (but very stylish) Austrian colonel is shipping gold--gold which could be used by the revolutionaries to buy weapons. However, Sabata isn't alone in this quest--he's taking along a fat guy, two VERY strange acrobats and a pretty-boy named Ballentine--who you KNOW is up to no good.As far as Italian westerns go, this theme is VERY common--though most of the time the hero is helping the anti-Diaz forces of the Mexican Civil War of the 1910s. This one is set much earlier and has to do with getting rid of the imposed leader, Maximillian. Regardless, this one is reasonably entertaining, full of insanely good shots and has a touch of humor. Worth seeing but not a particularly novel film...except when it comes to one of the acrobats. His skill is handling a very large ball bearing kind of like a hacky sack--which he then hurls with his foot at people with deadly accuracy! Ha...worth seeing just to see this guy in action. ball bearing guy*The same spirit of intellectual dishonesty was also rampant in Asian films after the death of Bruce Lee. Many supposedly new and recently discovered Lee films flooded the market--starring folks such as Bruce Li or consisting of home movies of Lee or outtakes from his films interspersed with a double wearing sunglasses! These films were ALL horrible--whereas a few of the Italian knockoffs were actually watchable. Plus, at least the Italian films had cool music.

SciFiSheriff After seeing the first film, Sabata, I was just thirsting for spaghetti western goodness. Then I uncovered 2 of the film's sequels; Adios Sabata and Return of Sabata. This review will only be on Adios sabata but be sure to check my other reviews for the rest of the 3 films.Now onto the movie. Man. It's hard to do this film justice! This movie is truly a hidden gem in the western archive of movies and is extremely underrated. If I ruled the country I would have the movie poster slapped on every wall i could get my hands on. PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS FILM.The plot line goes like this; A gunfighter, a bunch of trigger-happy Mexicans and a 2 faced gringo start raiding waggon loads of gold off a Austrian colonel. He doesn't take kindly to this so he tries to exterminate them with the full might of the Austrian army.The plot line is a lot deeper than the first, with interesting plot twists and characters. The characters are really diverse and no character is the same. There is Sabata who seeks justice and gold at the same time. There is a honourable Mexican who executes people he doesn't like. Before his self-proclaimed executions, one of the Mexicans dance on the table and when he stops dancing, he shoots. Then there is also septembre who fires small grey metal balls from his shoes (I don't know who made this, but they are bonkers!). Finally there is an artist who has a bad memory. All the characters were well made and Had some good scenes of dialogue. The action is fantastic. In fact, it's the main part of the film! There is constant shootouts;Shootouts in a barn, shootouts in a deserted castle in the middle of nowhere, shootouts at a saloon- lets just say if you love action, you would be crazy to miss this fantastic action extravaganza. The battle at the end is simply fantastic. We've got Gatling guns blazing, bombs exploding and Austrian solders flying everywhere. It's loud, fun and exhilarating. Even if you don't like story of the whole film or if you don't like the fact Lee van clef isn't in it, at least watch it for the battle!Sabata this time around is played by The Magnificent Seven's Yel Brynner. Many western fans don't like the film, or dismiss it entirely just because Lee van Cleff isn't in it, thus making it rubbish. The film isn't even intended to be a Sabata film and it isn't one over in Spain. Istead, the main character is called Indeo black. It got the name Adios sabata when it hit America. The company wanted to cash-in on Sabata, which was popular at the time, so they could pocket some more money. To me, it doesn't matter who sabata is played by as long as he is Sabata. The ironic thing is, the reason Lee Van Clef couldn't do the role is because he was staring in a sequel to one of Yel's movies, The magnificent seven ride!This is probably one of the best westerns ever made and one of my favourite films of all time.If you want some fun, laughs and good old entertainment, pay sabata a visit.

The_Void I didn't like Sabata, or Return of Sabata; which begs the question; why did I watch Adios, Sabata? Well basically because I got the set on DVD. This film is set apart from the other two owing to the fact that unlike them, it doesn't star Lee Van Cleef. I thought this might condemn the film to being even worse than the first two; but Yul Brynner steps in and does a fairly good job with the title role. The plot does not follow on from the other two films and is just your basic Spaghetti Western stuff, with the title character this time helping a bunch of people steal some gold. The first thing I noticed about this film is that the music is a lot better than it was in the last one and there isn't so much of the jokey style, which is welcome. The plot is a bit of a problem as it's rather confusing and this makes things difficult to follow. It's also not all that interesting, which doesn't help. Director Gianfranco Parolini does well with the Spaghetti Western style and the cinematography is not bad. Overall, I can't say I'm a fan of this film; or of the series on the whole, but at least this third entry isn't any worse than the other two.

dbborroughs Sort of sequel to the earlier Sabata with Lee Van Cleef, this was filmed as Indio Black and is known as that in several countries. The title was changed when the distributor paid for the right to use the name Sabata from the original films producer. The result is Sabata becomes a dead ringer for Chris, Yul Brynner's character from the Magnificent Seven films (a character Van Cleef was playing in a movie shot at the same time as this).Aren't the back stage maneuvering of Spaghetti Westerns fun? Some times the stories are more fun than the movies.Fortunately this movie is more fun than the story.The plot has Sabata (Yul Brenner) helping Mexican revolutionaries attempting to over throw the Emperor Maximilian. Sabata is to steal some gold and then use it to buy guns to attack an evil General. However things don't go as planned and when they go to steal the gold someone else is already there. Add to the whole mix spies, greed and some odd left turns and you get one entertaining, but not very coherent movie.Don't get me wrong I like this movie a great deal, I just wish it made some sense. Characters appear out of left field when it suits the plot, people don't do anything logical (I mean if you just stole a wagon full of gold you'd make sure that the gold was really there wouldn't you?), after a certain point its never clear if they are keeping the gold or giving it to the revolution. Its enough to drive you crazy if you let it. I didn't since a good many of the spaghetti westerns I've seen make even less sense then this one.If you like Westerns this is one to see. Its perfect for a rainy Sunday afternoon. I'm still not sure if I think of Brenner's character as Sabata, but it doesn't matter since no matter what he's called he's a kick ass hero with a smart ass mouth. What more could you want?