FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.

morganmpoet The best of the revolutionary spaghetti westerns. Volante's best role imo within this genre. Complex characterizations, interesting narrative & an ending that will leave U a bit shocked perhaps.Other's have reviewed the plot. I will say Lou Costello as El Nino is a cypher in this film, his character is rather blank & not easily read but that's the point. Other reviews I have read remark he has no charisma or his characterization is boring but they miss the point; he is a professional assassin & he knows exactly what he wants & what he is doing & he is smarter than everyone around him. Chuncho's first realization there is something more to El Nino comes in a quiet scene where in he asks Costello as El Nino 'U don't like wine, U don't like women, what do U like' paraphrasing, El Nino replies 'Gold'.Kinski is wonderful as always. Highly recommended spaghetti western! IMO this is Volante's best characterization although 'Face to Face' is very close in my ranking, here his emotional arc is extreme & he is an excellent actor. I always enjoyed his performances but in this film he really does a wonderful wonderful job of acting. He makes most modern American actors look like rank beginners in comparison. He was truly gifted. RIP amigo.

JasparLamarCrabb As rich a spaghetti western as you're likely to find. During the Mexican Revolution, American Lou Castel gets caught up with arms dealer Gian Maria Volonté and his band of thieving misfits. They're stealing guns to sell to rebel General Jaime Fernández. Their long journey to find Fernández is peppered with a lot of bloodshed and even some soapy drama (Castel runs afoul of hot-headed Guy Heron & his strong willed girlfriend Martine Beswick). Volonté is outstanding, at first expanding upon his ruthless role in FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE. He turns out to be one of the most conscientiousness bandits in movie western history. Director Damiano Damiani infuses the film with quite a few political statements about guilt & innocence and haves and have nots. He's abetted greatly by Franco Solinas, who adapted Salvatore Laurani's story. The excellent music score is by Luis Bacalov. Klaus Kinski, second billed as Volonté's holy rolling brother, has a relatively small role.

zardoz-13 Damiano Damiani's 1966 epic "Quien Sabe?" isn't the usual Spaghetti western blood bath set against the scenic Spanish mountains masquerading as turn of the century Mexico. Mind you, despite his association with Sergio Leone, Damiani has made a serious adventure film that lacks the charisma of either a Sergio Leone or Sergio Corbucci shoot'em up. Damiani packs quite a message in this beautifully lensed hybrid that contains many iconic set-pieces, particularly the opening scene on the railroad in the desert. Italian communist scenarist Franco Solinas, who penned classics like "The Battle of Algiers" and later "Quiemada!," wrote this off-beat oater that broke ground for westerns of this sort. The problems occurring in Mexican in the early 1900s were not far removed from the problems that afflicted other third world countries in the Western Hemisphere. Indeed, these westerns are sometimes referred to as Marxist in content. Not long after the arrival of the Spaghetti westerns with plots set on the border came Spaghetti westerns that occurred primarily below the border and shared the same period setting as Sam Peckinpah's "The Wild Bunch." These 'Zapata' westerns as some critics have described them take advantage of modern technology, such as machine guns, bi-planes, and artillery, which escalated the body count, and they usually featured a grimy Mexican peasant teaming up with a foreigner of questionable allegiance. These Spaghetti westerns lack charismatic heroes and villains and they are often messy. Meaning, the endings are happily-ever-after and the characters constitute anything for role models.In "Quien Sabe," ferocious Mexican desperado 'El Chucho' Munoz (Gian Maria Volonté of "A Fistful of Dollars") meets a baby-faced American, Bill Tate (Colombian actor Lou Castel of "The Cassandra Crossing") after an assault on a government train and lets him join his band of murderous revolutionaries. Actually, this little boy who dresses like a city slicker has one thing on his mind. He wants to use 'El Chucho' to lead him to revolutionary General Elías (Jaime Fernández of "Guns for San Sebastian")so he can kill him with a golden bullet. Of course, 'El Chucho' has no clue that he is being cleverly played by Bill. Bill has been riding trains back and forth across Mexico for the opportunity to catching 'El Chucho.' 'El Chucho' has chained a Mexican military captain to a cross and has him kneeling between the rails of the railway tracks so that the train must either run over him or halt. During the confrontation, Bill manages to scramble into the locomotive cab and stop the train so that 'El Chucho' can kill the rest of the government troops and take their firearms. Essentially, 'El Chucho' wants to sell the firearms to make money, unlike his so-called brother El Santo (German actor Klaus Kinski of "For A Few Dollars More") who wears a crucifix at his throat and believes in the rights of the peasants. Meantime, 'El Chucho' grows quite fond of Bill and they become friends. 'El Chucho' shows no qualms about killing his own to protect Bill, and Bill repays him the favor near the end when El Santo has orders to execute his brother.If you consider yourself a fan of Spaghetti westerns, "Quien Sabe?" is worth watching. There is really no humor in this western. The characters are problematic. 'El Chucho' is a complex character that you can admire and hate, while Bill Tate is thoroughly loathsome, which makes the casting of Lou Castel so significant. Indeed, several surprises occur through out this oater. If you are searching for films with greater charisma in the genre, check out Corbucci's "The Mercenary" and "Companeros."

Witchfinder General 666 Damiano Damiani's masterpiece "El Chuncho Quién Sabe?" aka. "A Bullet For The General" of 1967 is a very political Spaghetti Western set in the Mexican Revolution. A quite brutal tale about ideals, greed, friendship and selfishness, is not only a very entertaining Spaghetti Western, but also a unique study of an idealistic man's struggle between his greed and desire for wealth on the one hand, and his beliefs and ideals on the other hand.El Chuncho (Gian Maria Volontè) is a bandit and revolutionary with a strong fondness for women, alcohol and cigars. Along with his slightly insane, but religious and very idealistic brother El Santo (Klaus Kinski), he leads a gang of bandits with beliefs, who help the poor and rob the government's army to sell the weapons to the revolutionary army. When the gang is joined by Bill Tate, an American who, due to his youth, is just referred to as "El Nino" by El Chuncho and his fellow Mexican bandidos, the gang leader starts to befriend with the gringo. El Nino, however is basically almost the opposite of El Chuncho, he doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke and he doesn't waste his time with women, and neither does he believe in any causes or ideals, the only thing he is interested in is quick and good money. His friendship to the baby-faced but selfish and cold-blooded Nino, becomes a breaking test for Chuncho, who is torn between his greed and his ideals.Although Sergio Leone and Sergio Corbucci are two of my favorite directors of all-time, and their movies "Giù La Testa" ("Duck You Sucker", Leone) and "Il Mercenario" ("The Mercenary", Corbucci), are two awesome movies, and furthermore there are quite a few more excellent Mexican Revolution Spaghetti Westerns , I would name "A Bullet for the General" as my favorite of the Mexican-Revolution-themed Spaghetti Westerns. The acting in this movie is superb. Gian Maria Volontè played in four Spaghetti Westerns and each one of them is a masterpiece. After his excellent performances in "A Fistful Of Dollars", "For A Few Dollars More" and Sergio Sollima's "Faccia A Faccia"/"Face To Face", Volontè is superb as El Chuncho, the most lovable Spaghetti Western character he played. Klaus Kinski is great as always, the character of the rather crazy but idealistic El Santo is quite unusual, since Kinski's roles in Italian Westerns were, with a few exceptions, normally those of extremely cold blooded and selfish killers, who didn't think of anybody but themselves. Lou Castel perfectly fits into the role of baby-faced El Nino, and he manages to point out his character's cleverness and selfishness in a very good way. The directing by Damiano Damiani is brilliant and so is the cinematography. I would have rated this 10/10 if it wasn't for he one minor flaw: The score by Ennio Morricone and Louis Bavalov is good, but it is no quite as great as it could have been as it can't compete with the brilliance of other Morricone scores. Nevertheless, an excellent film! A brutal, witty and very political Spaghetti Western, "A Bullet For The General" is an excellent film that genre-fans, and film buffs in general should not miss!