Nayan Gough
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Fatma Suarez
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
Marva
It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Jeff (actionrating.com)
See it -I bet you didn't know Yul Brynner was in a spaghetti western. Well this is one of my favorite spaghetti westerns, and it's as "spaghetti" as they come. You've got crazy-looking guns, plenty of camera close-ups, and even a cowboy who specializes in kicking musket balls at the enemy. An insanely fun western that will keep you entertained with its plethora of action-packed, over-the-top gunfights and battles. Brynner plays the stereotypical cowboy lead character, but the plot isn't stereotypical at all. The story takes place in Mexico, where a revolution is brewing against the Austrians. You know you want to see a movie featuring cowboys vs. Austrian soldiers! An underrated western that shouldn't be taken seriously, but should seriously be taken…home from the store…when you buy it. 5 out of 5 action rating
TankGuy
Adios sabata is basically an all guns blazing action movie. It is extremely high on action and the bodycout rockets. Among the action are lots of shootouts, fistfights, explosions, an ambush and an epic scale battle sequence.Yul Byrnner plays sabata this time round, but he's just as good as Lee Van Cleef. One of the best things about this movie is sabatas rifle which fires off several bullets and even houses one cigar.Adios sabata is just as cheesy as the first sabata movie, if not cheesier. The fight scenes, shootouts and deaths are spectacularly staged in spaghetti western B movie fashion.The battle between sabatas motley army and the austrian forces is one of the highlights of the film. It makes ear blasting use of cannons, rifles, dynamite and Gattling guns which is how a movie battle scene should be.The characters are very likable and are very well played. The theme tune is excellent. The best sabata movie and the best spaghetti western.This is a must see for anybody. A masterpiece
kellyadmirer
This is one of the strangest westerns ever made, and that includes the various incarnations of the spaghetti variety. And it isn't all bad. Yul Brynner is at the top of his game, and that is saying something. But everything around him is so bizarre that it's almost like walking into an episode of "The Prisoner," with nothing looking quite right and nobody taking things quite seriously enough. The difference is that there, it's not supposed to look like it makes sense. Here, unfortunately, it is supposed to - I think.Anyway, Yul plays your standard-issue cool, unshakable, unbeatable gunfighter, naturally clad all in black, the kind that pops up with great regularity in bad movies. But he is such a fine actor that he adds a knowing look here, a smirk there to show an intelligence usually missing in these kind of heroes. He even plays classical piano - Clint Eastwood never did THAT.But he isn't given much to play off. Dean Reed (who?) plays the closest thing to a buddy he has here, a completely out-of-place traitor to the infamous Mexican Maximilian government (and to everyone else). As is always, always, always the case in these films about the Maximilian days, it all comes down to the government's gold, and who gets it. I won't spoil the ending, but if you've seen any other film about the Maximilian days, you already know who will get the gold that everybody is after. More evidence of a poor script....The plot itself is pretty much beside the point, though. Even Yul, good as he is, is really just window dressing. The really striking thing about this film is the villains. Maximilian and his henchmen are always portrayed so originally in films about the period. In the fine "Veracruz," they were portrayed as medieval French knights. In "Undefeated," basically overdressed locals. Here, they are Austrians (yes, you read that right, Austrians) wearing bowler hats (yes, big old bowlers in the hot sun) and three piece suits (no, I'm really not kidding). Come on, where else are you going to see grimy revolutionaries in hand-to-hand combat with downtown bankers? Seriously! And Blofeld, I mean "Colonel Skimmer," is busy adjusting his monocle (!) while pulling the strings and using prisoners for his target practice.Worth it for the surreal nature of the bad guys, the glaringly obvious references to better spaghetti westerns (the visuals, the music, the ubiquitous musical watch, the reference to burying the gold in a cemetery), and of course, unforgettable Yul.
johnwaynefreak
Firstly, this is *not* a sequel to 1970's "Sabata" ("Ehi amico... c'è Sabata, hai chiuso!") although it can be considered a follow up of sorts. Lee Van Cleef did not reprise the role until 1971's "Return of Sabata". "Adiós Sabata" was originally about a character called Indio Black and completely unrelated to the previous Sabata story - Indio, I believe, was meant to be nothing more than a bandit. The name was changed to cash in on the success of "Sabata" - though this film could be considered a true Sabata entry as a couple of stars return (Pedro Sanchez, Gianni Rizzo) and the screenwriters and director are the same. Gianfranco Parolini (Frank Kramer) perhaps out does the previous film here, keeping everything tighter - "Sabata" was a little too jokey (although still excellent and one of the truly great Italian westerns) whereas this is blatantly tongue in cheek. I feel the music is better in this film, never intrusive and always fitting: a triumph for Bruno Nicolai, despite the fact that it is incredibly reminiscent of Morricone.As Sabata, Brynner is a kind of anti-hero counterpart to Chris from "The Magnificent Seven"; he even dresses out all in black here too. Gérard Herter is great as the Austrian Colonel Skimmel at the time of Emperor Maximillian's Mexico - a kind of borderline camp, Bond villain type, complete with monacle and perfectly trimmed moustache. Oh, and yes, he is a dead shot with a rifle. In "Sabata", Franco Ressel's Stengel had his shootout's behind man shaped shields (to live at the peak of danger or some such nonsense) as his playtoy; Herter's Skimmel has an even better one - a drawer beneath a model ship that when opened fires each cannon on the model directly into whoever opens the drawer. Like "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (which this film contains some surprisingly subtle references to) the plot centres around a shipment of gold: Sabata, Escudo (Sanchez) and Ballantine (Dean Reed) want the wagon load of gold, but it is also coveted by Maximillian's rebels. The scenes with the gold and the gold dust being poured out/spilled is nicely complimented by Nicolai's incidental music which really does bring out the joy of the characters.I personally think it's a shame that Brynner and the others weren't brought back for another Sabata film because he plays the role much straighter than Van Cleef did and really does come across as a tough guy here, who doesn't need to rely on his gun. "Adiós Sabata" is a classic in it's own right and doesn't need to be viewed with the other Sabata entries. It's only downside is that after surpassing the superb original, it left most people disappointed with the later "Return of Sabata".Are these subtle hints to Leone's 1966 masterpiece? Sanchez: "Me, I'd make a hiding place no-one would find - stick it in the ground, maybe in a cemetery..." Reed (the last line): "Hey fellas - are you gonna help me pick up the gold or not, you sons of...!" (music takes over)
