Plantiana Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Siflutter It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Roman Sampson One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

ironhorse_iv Dear God, really, what happen to this movie! It looks like everybody has a really bad sunburn or it's a Western film with Oranges. Everything is so bright. My copy of the film is discolored as hell and what I heard is I'm not the only one. The image quality of the movie is poor. I haven't found a great copy of the film. God's Gun also known as Diamante Lobo and A Bullet from God in some recopies is a Spaghetti-Western that is directed by Gianfranco Parolini or as credited in the American version as Frank Kramer. The movie was filmed in Israel, so this makes this another Matzoh Ball Western starting Spaghetti western legendary actor Lee Van Cleef and 1970's pop star Leif Garett who also started in Joseph Manduke's Kid Vengeance, a year later. Instead of being rivals, in this movie, Leif Garett stars as Johnny, a fatherless kid who takes turn helping run the local church with Father John (Lee Van Cleef) and then the local Saloon, with his mother (Sybil Danning). In a way, both jobs serve a purpose to the plot. It became clear that the theme of the jobs in the film is to show that the boy has to balance his life from serving what's good or entering a life of vice. It's become more a complex conflict for the boy, when a malicious group of bandits enter the town, and start making a scene at the Saloon, leaded by Sam Clayton (Jack Palance). Jack Palance felt like he was challenging his inner evil Jack Nicolson here. Palance is funnier than usual. He is brilliant in the role. He plays the bandit leader very well to the point that I wouldn't wait for the final showdown between Father John and Sam Clayton. Without spoiling too much of the film, both are fighting for the body and soul of the boy, literally. Great story. It illustrates that pacifism is unrealistic, even for Christians. Lee Van Cleef plays double roles in this film as both Father John and his brother Lewis, aka Diamante Lobo. When Father John is shot, his brother, to come north and settle the score. As it turns out, of course, the matter becomes a little more complicated as the gang can't tell the different between the priest and Diamante Lobo. This mysterious spirituous sub-plot gave the movie some deeply needed entertainment. I love how the film makes Diamante Lobo look like somewhat a revengeful fallen angel out to get the gangs for their sinful acts. Diamante Lobo was a bit creepy in this film. I honestly did the hokey 'Ahh' sound whenever Diamante Lobo shown up in the scene to confront an enemy. It's pretty awesome. Reminds me of the sound that came with Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollar Trilogy. I didn't mind the somewhat laughable wig, he was wearing and him talking to himself as another person. I have to say, Richard Boone as the Sheriff is just awful. Richard Boone walked off the film before it was completed leaving his role to be dubbed by another actor that doesn't sound like him. The reason why based by him is because the producer is an Israeli and the director is Italian and deaf, and they both don't speak. The mute thing is kinda silly. In fact, everyone in this film is dubbed by someone else, so it sounds nothing like the actors. The movie is full of action with a death count of 20. I love the over-acting when they get shot. It's full of those one shot kills that is pretty dumb. There is a few good supporting characters. The women are hated objects of lust and the men are just dogs. While, the rape scenes are tame. The movie makes it looks like they were just having fun rather than brutal. It makes it look like you can get away with attempt rape. The editing is pretty bad, as the scenes tend to go way too long, even when there is nothing going on the screen. There is a lots of tilted angles and zooms that wasn't needed. The flashbacks were blurry, and wasn't needed. I did dig the song of the last flashback scene in the movie. The music by Sante Maria Romitelli was pretty good, even if it's sounds like a bunch of hyenas laughing their head off. This is rated R for physical violence, gun violence, strong sexual violence, gore, some profanity, brief female nudity, brief male nudity, and sexual references, but it's pretty tame. Trust me. It's mostly PG-13 in these days, standards. The movie is widely available as a cheap public domain DVD. So it's easy to find in a dollar bin or find on the Internet. An astonishingly so bad, it's good film. Still, worth watching so amen to that.

FightingWesterner Priest Lee Van Cleef stands up to Jack Palance and his vicious outlaw gang, only to be promptly murdered. This sends young Leif Garrett on a search to find the father's twin (also Van Cleef) who puts on his brother's collar and proceeds to give the outlaws a serious case of the willies!A low-budget Isreali backed spaghetti western, this re-teaming of Van Cleef with his Sabata director "Frank Kramer" is pretty good fun despite the derision of others who snicker at the casting of Leif Garrett. He was actually a decent kid actor before the silly overblown teen-idol hoopla.Van Cleef, Palance, and the ravishing Sybil Danning are all great and keep things pretty lively throughout, even if things get a bit amateurish and corny at times.However, Richard Boone is sadly wasted on a half-formed sheriff character, dubbed by another actor!

Cristi_Ciopron Kramer's GOD'S GUN is a very clumsy gunmen melodrama; one of the clumsiest. The cast is notable (Van Cleef, Palance, Mrs. Danning), and Van Cleef is even doing a double role—as a rightful priest and then as his vengeful brother. About the roles one thing can be said—Van Cleef is as enjoyable as usually, while Palance is as nasty and exasperating as ever with his overacting and simian air. He has the tendency to overact and burden any role, instead of just playing it straight. He mainly wishes to give the impression that he is masterful and is having so much fun—but this almost never works.Van Cleef, on the contrary, is very good. To me, GOD'S GUN was strong fun, and I liked it. What can a Van Cleef leading role in a European western be, other than a joy? Even if the movie is basically bad, Van Cleef changes it and makes it likable. His performances are as cool and simple, straight, minimalist, as they are efficient. There is a sharpness and virility, a quiet force and authority in them , that makes them so peculiar. He seized the opportunity of the European westerns in the '60s and '70s, and he used it. He is my favorite gunman.As I already mentioned, he manages two roles in GOD'S GUN. As a movie, this outing is simply slapdash, where much is left to guess. Its director handled it extremely clumsily—and also almost comically so. Van Cleef alone rescues what is savable in this missed opportunity. God's Gun looks often unintentionally parody and funny. The plot is as simple as it can be—yet it looks like a too greater defy for the severely incompetent director. Compared to other similar flicks of the same bent, it's less elegiac and more cruel and brutal (but not exceedingly so).It catalogs several devices of the genre—the stirring music, the acoustic underscoring of the presumably notable moments, odd camera movements and angles, flashbacks, a rape scene in flashback, funny citizens, hearty whores, and, despite the fact that it looks very much like a parody, it seems it is not one, but a straight thriller. Despite all the deficiencies, I tend to find a Van Cleef leading part rather endearing. (I shall add that I prefer a clumsy Italian gunmen melodrama over a boring, insipid USA western.) It is significant that Van Cleef's crediting recommends any movie he's in, and I spontaneously seize any movie that boasts in his performance. In the Leone diptych (from the point of view of Van Cleef's presence), I enjoy over and over only his performance; and since we are discussing the subject, let me state that, from the four actors mainly involved in the two Leone movies (Van Cleef,Eastwood,Volonté and Wallach), I consider Van Cleef's role to be the very best (there are, in fact, two roles); Volonté's role to be almost as good; Wallach to be the third. Yes, Leone knew to adorn his movies with some extraordinary actors (we may add Kinski's bit part). And putting it bluntly, Van Cleef is the opposite of everything Eastwood means. Which is no small achievement. In the triumphant gallery of the European westerns, Van Cleef has a large share, together with Gemma, Nero , Gian Maria Volonté, Klaus Kinski, Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Tony Anthony—a very fine league, I should say;and he was enviable as a man of good looks, in the class of Stamp and Clift. As an actor, Van Cleef was cool, very efficient, and ironic in a way that boosted his roles and did not dissolve them; he looked like an intelligent and firm person. In USA, he was more of an outsider, though the fact should perhaps not be exaggerated.If I am quite kind to this flick, it is in great part because of Van Cleef's leading part. Despite the monumental incompetence of the director, the movie is worth seeing—for Van Cleef's performance ,one as cool as it gets within the given conditions—which were rather inappropriate, it seems.When the priest played by Van Cleef was murdered, I was disappointed—yet such is not the case, as the actor comes back as an able gunman, the priest's dear brother.For me and the European westerns, it was an ideal match—once I have liked one of them, I spontaneously liked them all. Van Cleef is to me (as a western buff) what R. Scott means to Teachout ( as a western buff).

garyldibert TITLE: This picture was released in theaters in March of 1978 starring a very young but gorgeous Sybil Danning as Jenny, Lee Van Cleef as Father John and Lewis and Jack Palace as Sam Clayton.SUMMARY: Picture starts in a little called Crane City where a Mexican is putting on a puppet show. As he starts to collect money, you hear gunshots coming from behind his wagon. Sam Clayton and his gang has just rode into Crane City where they terrorist the woman rob the bank and kill the sheriff and the deputy. A few days later Sam Clayton and his thugs ride into Juno City. Enters Sybil Danning who's playing the role of Jenny and she runs the only saloon in town. Also living with her is her son Johnny. Enters Lee Van Cleef who's the Priest or otherwise called Father John. Father John and Johnny are walking down the street when Jenny asks Johnny if he finished shining the glasses. Father John tells Jenny that Johnny will be back to finish shinning the glasses after he's done cleaning the church. While cleaning the church Johnny comes across a gun that belongs to Fathers John Brother Lewis. Sam is in Jenny saloon when Johnny walks in. Sam wonders while Johnny isn't in school. Sam also wants to know where Johnny's father is. Meanwhile at table a couple of Sam's thugs are playing poker when one of them is accused of cheating. Sam's nephew throws a knife in the back of the poker player that was cheating. As a man lying died in jenny saloon Sam Clayton and his gang start to ride out of town. Jenny is screaming at the people of the town for someone to go after Sam Clayton's nephew to bring him back to for justice. When the sheriff decides that he's not going Father John takes the sheriffs horse and rides out after Sam Clayton gang. That's leaves two unanswered questions.QUESTIONS: What does the title God's Gun stand for? What does Father John comeback to town with Sam Clayton's nephew? MY THOUGHTS: I thought this was an excellent picture. Lee Van Cleef does an excellent job playing the role of Father John and the role of Lewis. Jack Palace was excellent in his role as Sam Clayton. The reason I bought this movie was Sybil Danning. You didn't see much of Sybil Danning body in this because it was a western but, she was excellent in her role as Jenny the owner of the saloon. Her talents as an actress really shined in this picture. So, with that in mind, and because this movie kept my interest through the entire picture I'm giving this movie 10 weasels stars because of Sybil Danning and the level of action , adventure and drama this movie had from beginning to end. If you want to see this movie, you can buy it in DVD format at Amazon.com