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one of the top westerns ever maybe top 5
Have always considered it to be my all time favorite western.
Great movie,intense.The actors that were chosen made the movie a hit in my opinion...
greatest gun fight scene ever-best sub plot-Jason Robards dubiously had the best role in the film
I saw it for the 1st time when I was about 10 years old. Loved it then....Still love it now!!!!!
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Village Voice
Akira Kurosawa once said that Toshiro Mifune could give him in three feet of film the emotion any other actor would take 10 to deliver, but in a single flash of Fonda's electric turquoise orbs, Leone (Kurosawa's first and sincerest flatterer-imitator) managed to say as much about John Ford, the devil, and the corruptions of the Way Out Western world as the genre ever would. Full Review
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
Leone brought back a masterpiece, a film that expands his baroque, cartoonish style into genuine grandeur, weaving dozens of thematic variations and narrative arabesques around a classical western foundation myth.(Review of Original Release) Full Review
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle
An additional treat is seeing Hollywood good guy Henry Fonda playing one of the nastiest curs in the West. Once Upon a Time in the West is one of the great films in cinema history. (8/30/2000 Review) Full Review
Phil Hall
Film Threat
Alas, the big screen also magnifies the problems with Once Upon a Time in the West. Specifically, Leone's insistence on style trumped the need for substance. The film is basically a B-Western stretched an agonizing 165 minutes. Full Review
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
Good fun, especially if you like Leone's way of savoring the last morsel of every scene. (Review of Original Release) Full Review
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