Purely Joyful Movie!

Your blood may run cold, but you now find yourself pinioned to the story.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

A Swedish arms dealer and a Mexican peon team up to rescue the intellectual leader of the Revolutionary cause, while taking part in numerous misadventures along the way."Compañeros" is one of Sergio Corbucci's best-known westerns, as well as one of the best-known spaghetti westerns altogether. The film has been compared to "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", as it intertwines the paths of several characters in the middle of a conflict, but takes place during the Mexican Revolution instead of the American Civil War.As well as being a solid spaghetti western, this also happens to be a good showcase for Jack Palance. Being of a younger generation, I am most associated with the older Palance of the 80s and 90s, but he made quite a name for himself in the western genre (as many people did in those days). This is a fine performance worth watching.

Under-rated!!! OK, if you don't like spaghetti/schnitzel westerns, but if one has ever even mildly entertained you then you'll love this.Great acting, wonderful casting, incredible humor- and the best part is that it isn't trying to be funny, it just can't help it! Never silly, with so many sequences that are just...fun! I have been thinking since watching films like "One Man's Hero" that 1910 along the Texas-Mexico border is the best time and place for the genre and this one really proves the rule.More gritty than "Fistful of Dollars", better cast than "Once Upon a Time in the West" and it leaves you feeling better than "Shane". Yeah, it's that good, imho. Dig one of the original posters for it: http://www.allouttabubblegum.com/main/wp- content/uploads/2011/06/companeros_poster_01.jpg

Django writer-director Sergio Corbucci returns with this off the wall violent and quirky comedic R-rated Western that revives an all star eccentric cast of Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance and Fernando Rey in a typically political spaghetti gun-fest. Ennio Morricone's score is on a whole other level as usual, and is too epic to be confined to this tale of mere mortal drunken bandidos and a cracker ass gringo. A melodramatic italo-story of political and personal loyalties during the Mexican revolution, counterbalanced with the comedic "odd ball" pairing of Yodlaf Peterson (Nero), a cool and clam Swedish arms dealer, and the emotional and impetuous El Vasco (Milian), a wild Mexican revolutionary. Long story short, the two need to go on a journey to find the only man who who knows how to open an impenetrable safe full of gold back down in Mexico, the Prof. Xantos (Rey); but it's not a pleasure tour, as he is being held captive in an American garrison, and all the while the two are being hunted by a 'marijuana-crazed' Jack Palance. The movie is full of ridiculously fun machine gun fights and and a large dose of good humored violence, and each characters personality is so exaggerated there is a clashing of egos in almost every scene in the film which makes for a memorable two hours. Recommended for anybody else like me who lives for these types of free-spirited dual- crossed-bandoleers stories where the fate of the sun drenched universe is decided by those with the biggest sombrero and tequila induced machismo. viva la muerte, pinche...

"Companeros" is a disjointed tale of Mexican revolutionary factions enlisting the aid of a pair of double crossing mercenaries. Sound familiar? Probably, because it's all been done before and far better by Sergio Leone. This movie is very derivative, using "The room is free now" from "For a Few Dollars More", safe opening problems from the same movie, hanging precariously balanced as in "The Good the Bad and the Ugly" cemetery, and lastly substituting a nose for Kinski's hunchback in a match striking scene. The erratic script is lighthearted almost to the point of being cartoon-like. There is even a pot smoking Jack Palance character doing a pretty good imitation of the crazed "Indio" from "For a Few Dollars More" The only originality is Ennio Morricone's choral score, which will stay with you long after this very average "spaghetti western" is long forgotten. - MERK