Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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

beowulfsfriend One can definitely tell Sergio was involved. Naming the bad guys The Wild Bunch and having a grave marker for Sam Peckenpah was outstanding. Good use of humor.Made during the near end of Fonda's cowboy days. Pure old-time spaghetti Western, only with a mix of lots of humor. Sadly they don't make films like this anymore. Best line by Fonda, "When you find yourself covered in s---, sometimes it pays to keep quiet."

PimpinAinttEasy Well, this was a highly entertaining western that is a bit like a spoof of Leone's previous films. Morricone even uses some of his music from Once Upon a Time in the West. It is like a farcical commentary on myth making in the American West. But Henry Fonda's final monologue suggests that the film is not a complete joke. The shootout at the beginning is nearly as heart stopping as the one in Once Upon a Time in the West. And the grand vistas and the set pieces are up there with the best you would ever see in a Leone film.Fonda is terrific as a gunfighter who simply wants to retire. But a young upstart gunfighter (Terence Hill) keeps following him and inspires him to retire with grace. Hill is pretty over the top and irritating at times. Leone really had a soft corner for gallows humor. He really lets himself go in this one. Some of the scenes are unbelievably over the top.I noticed a young Geoffery Lewis. Ennio Morricone's title score is wonderful but it sounded like something from a 70s or 80s Malayalam or Tamil movie. I wonder why they used this score in a Western. Anyway, a very enjoyable film.(8/10)

Scott44 I recommend "My Name is Leone" (by chaos-rampant from Greece, 4 June 2009). Also, "Stylish To A Fault" (Bill Slocum from Greenwich, CT United States, 4 February 2013).'My Name is Nobody' tells a really interesting story, but fails to reach the heights that it should have. This is one of the few movies I've seen where the cinematography (Giuseppe Ruzzolini) is really endearing, while the direction (Tonino Valerii) is paces behind. Assuming that Leone directed the bar-shooting-scene and the mens' bathroom scene, visual improvement seems needed with the rest.The story spoofs Spaghetti Westerns (particularly Leone's own recent catalog) in a manner that kills off the tension the inevitable cinematic duels usually invite. One could say that by having a gunslinger who can move faster than humanly possible, so we see sped-up motion that is slapstick in nature, that Leone is mocking his own repeated use of a cinematic gunslinger (e.g., Bronson, Eastwood) who can move quick enough that he is comfortable in duels with at least three opponents. Leone is poking fun at himself, at the expense of serious tension here.The writing is a bit choppy, and the dialogue is drawn out. The pacing is slow. Henry Fonda particularly seems in no hurry to say his lines. He's good, though. Same as Terrence Hill.The relationship between Terrence Hill's "Nobody" and Henry Fonda's "Jack Bauregard" is the strongest part of it. 'Nobody' seems to be an alter-ego of Bauregard, sent from the future. He's so easy-going that he seems retired (as Bauregard wants to be). He's also the cartoonishly skilled and quick gunsligner, which again is Bauregard (on a good day). And, by insisting that his name is "Nobody" he's being as inscrutable as Bauregard might get to be in retirement.As an alter-ego (posing as Doppleganger--he becomes an alter-ego with the film's final scene), 'Nobody' is Bauregard's own sense of adventure encouraging himself to retire in style. (By fighting the "Wild Bunch", an improbable, 150-strong army of outlaws on horseback.) With such an interesting relationship between two characters in a Western, too bad it didn't reach its fullest potential.Also, note that the film explicitly mentions Sam Peckinpah (i.e., a name on a grave) and features an army of terrorists called "The Wild Bunch." Should we think that Leone is "Nobody" who admires (and constantly trails, the legendary) Peckinpah? "My Name is Nobody" is a must-see for spaghetti western completists, art-house types and/or cult-film goers. It doesn't compare with Leone's best for dramatic tension, but has appealing qualities.

secondtake My Name is Nobody (1973)The start of this movie is as archetypal and fabulous as any Sergio Leone movie, and it suggests another great stab at the old genre. Even knowing that it's a spoof doesn't take away from the high drama that is really possible with such great filming and pacing. And it reminds you that the earlier Spaghetti Westerns were spoofs, too, in their own way.But the idea is really thin here, and stretched too long, and with some annoying music, so that sometimes you can't believe it's the same film. Henry Fonda is pretty amazing in his stoicism. He never quite winks at us pulling it off. The main lead is little known Terence Hill, who never has a name (or his name really is Nobody), and he's meant to be more cute than cool, a new kind of good guy who's so fast with guns he never has to snarl, but just confidently goes his smiling way. The final showdown reveals the whole concept to things and it's great fun the first time.I totally loved this movie when I was a kid. I just watched The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and maybe I'd had my fill of this kind of excess, with the single idea (supplied by Leone, we are told in big letters) not enough for a full length film.