joseph_blough I would venture to say that this is the best westerns, and one of the best movies, ever made. Henry Fonda plays his role with control and precision. Ennio Morricone adds a soundtrack that captures the whimsy of the movie while creating a fun, yet daunting fee that perfectly matches the plot of the movie. In a nutshell, the soundtrack is genius. Nobody, played by Terrence Hill is a perfect casting selection. He is able to show the humor, tension, and action that a western hero should be able to portray. The story is intricate and nuanced, and the visuals are stunning.Above all of that, the movie is funny and moving. What more can one ask for?

ironhorse_iv By the 1970s, the Spaghetti Western had almost become a parody of itself as slapstick comedies within the genre has become more popular, than the serious drama-full violent westerns of the mid & late 1960s. Director Tonino Valerii & Producer Sergio Leone saw this and decide to capitalize by making their own subtle humor movie. That movie would become, 'My Name is Nobody'; a title that alludes to the reply, Odysseus gave Polyphemus the Cyclops when asked his name in the Greek myth, Homer's Odyssey. Like Homer's tale, this film that tells the story of a mysterious nobody (Terrence Hill), trying to become somebody; by helping his child-hood hero, Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda) fight against the legendary Wild Bunch gang. Outgunned and outnumber, the two of them, must find a way to become legendary. Can mysterious stranger's plan work or will both of them, fade away from the hands of time? Watch the movie to find out! Without spoiling the movie, too much, I have to say, I love, how the film uses the dramatic sounds of a ticking of a clock to show, how little time, there is, for the unnamed person to make a name for himself. Some of the best suspense is in the opening scene at the barber shop. That opening set piece is masterful. I love that dose of intensity, so abstract, economical, and well deliberately paced. However, the movie starts to fall downhill, when the comedy kicks in, after that. It's there, that movie's message gets kinda lost, because of the large amount of slapstick filler and goofy ass music. Ennio Morricone's choice of mixing the whimsical tones of his older films, with that of different music styles such as Richard Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries or Paul Anka's My Way was kinda annoying. The opening song alone, sounds like it comes from a kid's beatbox with sounds of boiling hot water added to it. When the music and tone veers from serious suspense to goofball comedy in one second. Then, you know you got a problem. It wasn't well paced. The film wobbles from set-piece to set-piece with little time for exposition or establishing structure. It was very underdeveloped. Scenes from that moment, until the end, felt a bit choppy & uneven. Lots of continuity & factual errors start to pop up. It doesn't help that the film is full of anachronisms as well. There were even scenes where a lot of nothing, going on. Even the dialogue in the film seem a little drawn out. Still, the acting in the film wasn't that bad. It was pretty alright in my eyes. While, Henry Fonda seem particularly out of it, due to health problems, he still has the acting chops to pull the rough & tough cowboy role off. Terrence Hill in the other hand, was hilarious and likable, but his character was a little too similar to the one character from his 1970's ¨They call me trinity¨ and 1971's ¨Trinity is still my name¨ days. I was really confused, on how serious, we supposed to take his character. He's seem to be, a little too cartoony to be a realistic character. Another thing, that bother me, was the how the film is full of unrealistic childish violence mixed with real world violence. It's weird, how some dynamite explodes kills people, and other moments, it doesn't. The gunfights are really odd looking with the speed up and slow motions. It doesn't fit, well with the rest of the film. The humor is a mixed bag for me, as well. I like the shooting of glasses contest, but I think other examples of humor such as the urinal scene were rather tasteless. However, I did like the inside jokes and film references, the filmmakers put into the film. It's nice to see homages to 1947's The Lady from Shanghai, 1928's the Circus, 1968's Wild Bunch & others. Although the movie is mostly well-shot. It's really hard to figure out, which director help shot, what. Leone, himself, says that help directed a few scenes, such like the opening scene, the graveyard scene, Wild Bunch scene, and the duel in New Orleans. It's here, that fans will recognize the use of close-ups, depth of field, odd sounds, and long stretches of men staring at each other and making the audience uncomfortable. However, its rumor that, he had might have done the mirror, the urinal scene and part of the shooting of the beer glasses, which weren't so good, but in my opinion, I really don't think, he did any of the comedy scenes, himself. In the end, it doesn't really matter, because the movie is great to look at. The exotic locations pick for this film are well-used. Each one of them, representing a part of the Western film history. The graveyard scene, filmed at Acoma Puebla in New Mexico is known as a common film shooting grounds for American Westerns movies. The desert of La Calahorra in Spain, is known as the homeland of the spaghetti westerns. Last the scene in New Orleans, represented, where Fonda and Hill's character collide, represented the moment where the movie would metaphorically kill, the original format in which the western genre has been done, and reshape the four types of westerns: the classic Hollywood western, the classic Italian western, the revisionist Hollywood western and the Italian comedy western into their own image. . It reflects the development and degeneration of the genre. It's basically, telling, how to make something old, seem new, again. This movie would go on to have sequel, titled, 'A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe' also called, 'Nobody's the Greatest' in 1975, which also wasn't that good. Overall: Two things go straight through a man's heart. Bullets and gold. This movie had that, but it was also way too campy. A 7/10.

retropony This film is the best comedy Spaghetti Western ever!My favorite actor,Terence Hill stars as Nobody,an easygoing cowpoke.Warning this review contains a spoiler!Henry Fonda stars as Jack Buerguard a gunslinger,who Terence Hill wants to see go up in a blaze of glory by going up against the Wild Bunch.In the end,Henry Fonda gets rid of most of the gang and escapes with Nobody on a stolen train.Then him and Nobody stage a fake duel where Jack pretends to be shot.This film was produced and co-directed by Sergio Leone(The Good,the bad,and the ugly),who really helped in creating the genre.I would buy this film if you got the chance.Thank's for reading this.

bkoganbing Although Henry Fonda was never identified with the western genre as were contemporaries Gary Cooper and John Wayne he certainly had a fair number of classic horse operas to his credits. Although Ny Name Is Nobody has its moments I wish he had as his last western an American product like The Oxbow Incident or Warlock or My Darling Clementine. As you can tell I'm not a real big fan of European or any foreign made westerns no matter how many American names fill the cast.Henry Fonda like John Wayne in The Shootist is old and tired of life as a gunfighter, but unlike Wayne he still has his health and would like to spend a few declining years away from people trying to shoot him. He's looking to catch a boat from New Orleans to Europe where no one will know him or challenge his fast draw.That is if hero worshiping Terrence Hill, Sergio Leone's home grown western star. Hill is the man named Nobody who figures with a handle like that people will leave him alone, at least for a short time. He wants Fonda to go out shooting the way Wayne did in The Shootist. And what a match-up he has in mind, taking on a 150 mounted outlaws who call themselves The Wild Bunch. That's something the Duke would never dream of, but they've got a gimmick you have to see.As for the ending, think of the classic Glenn Ford western The Fastest Gun Alive to see how Fonda accomplishes his goal.My Name Is Nobody has its amusing moments, but can't compare to what we produce here even in these days when westerns are a rare species of film.