Return of Sabata
Return of Sabata
| 03 September 1971 (USA)
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Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of future improvements to the town. Or that's what McIntock says he'll do with the money...

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DipitySkillful

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

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Motompa

Go in cold, and you're likely to emerge with your blood boiling. This has to be seen to be believed.

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Marva-nova

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

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Brenda

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

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TankGuy

The third and final sabata film is not great, but for some reason at the same time its excellent. Lee Van Cleef is back again which is good, but the dialogue is far too heavy.Return of sabata drags too much as most scenes are conversations, but there are a few breaks of action here and there, such as extremely well choreographed fist fights and a couple of small shootouts, which are very fun and enjoyable to watch. Sometimes the plot is a bit hard to follow and some scenes are very complex and confusing.But if you concentrate on just the action and the characters this film is brilliant. The shootout at the end of the film is one of the best and is the only reason why i rated the film a 10.The theme tune is also excellent. This movie is good and bad,it's my least favourite of the trilogy, but it is a must see. Brilliant

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Arlis Fuson

This time Sabata is in a town doing his bit in a circus and being the outlaw that he is refuses to pay taxes. A gang of Irish men came in charging the town taxes in promise of building the town up all nice for them, but Sabata knows that McLintock and his henchman are up to no good and he wants in on their action in a fast attempt to blackmail them.Definitely not as good as part one, but I think its pretty neck and neck with part 2. I like Yul and Lee both, but think I like Cleef best in this role, I think he plays westerns way better than Bryner does.This movie was wild, starting out with psychedelic music and trippy colors and a 8 man killing spree that turns out to be a circus act... Very strange, and then a weird theme song to start the credits made me scratch my head as to what I was watching.Once again Kramers direction is great, but like so many things in this movie it is the least greatest of the three. Many actors came back from the previous films playing other people like Pedro Sanchez and Bruno Ukmar and Gianni Rizzo.I thought the movie was good, it had silly antics and more fist fighting than the others. They tried to make it more comedy based, and probably not an intention but I loved that Cleef was wearing a wig - that was funny 5/10 stars fans of the genre will enjoy all three of these films.

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MartinHafer

Lee Van Cleef is Sabata, a cool character who is brilliant, an amazing shot as well as incredibly dexterous with his hands. In this film, he and his group of freaks enter a town where the townspeople have been paying taxes through their noses in the promise of an all-new and beautiful town. However, the town's boss is actually planning on substituting the money with counterfeit and absconding with all of it. So it's up to Sabata and his odd team to expose the lie and return the money.I was prepared to like this movie far more than I did. The first SABATA movie was pretty good and I particularly liked watching the ultra-slick Lee Van Cleef in Westerns, as he was super-cool and menacing. Here, however, in the final appearance by Van Cleef in the Sabata series, he is pretty dull and the film seems to be more a parody of Italian Westerns instead of a serious or well thought-out film. Ultimately, the film is sunk by a horrible script--with strange and anachronistic characters, an incomprehensible plot and a lot of magical hocus-pocus that gets in the way of the characters.So what, specifically, did I dislike? Well, the two circus performers made no sense. They could tumble and jump and spin and jump on and off roofs at will as well as shoot more accurately at great distances with a giant slingshot than anyone could with a gun and all this had absolutely no place in a Western. It was just silly and confusing. Unfortunately, too much of the film focused on them and other secondary characters and Sabata was relegated to a more secondary role. Also, the plot really, really went all over the place and it was exceptionally hard to follow. And, to top it off, the film had one of the worst soundtracks I've heard in years. Usually, with a so-called "Spaghetti Western", you have haunting tunes by the great Ennio Morricone, but here some knucklehead Italian composer came up with songs with horrid 1970s backup singers (something NOT needed in these films) and in the title song, half the words are "boom, boom, boom, boom, boom" and this is heard again and again throughout the film! Yecch! This film was listed among the chosen few in the great book "The Fifty Worst Films" (1979) and I could see why, though I don't think it was quite bad enough to make the list. It was, however, the worst Spaghetti Western ever made and perhaps helped to kill the genre. It's a shame, as some of the best Westerns ever made were made by the Italians--and many even starred Van Cleef before he agreed to appear in this sort of bone-headed film.By the way, was it just me or did you, too, think it was pretty funny that Sabata had such a tiny, stubby little gun? I just kept thinking how Freud might have enjoyed laughing at or analyzing this movie character!

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David Vanholsbeeck

The third and last film in the Sabata-series is only slightly better than ADIÓS, SABATA. Lee Van Cleef is back as Sabata and his presence by itself is enough to make this a better movie than the second one with Yul Brynner. Still, Van Cleef can't entirely make up for the awful script and the attempts for comedy. The "gags" in this film are total misfires. Sometimes, Van Cleef is even required to act like a clown. His clothing too isn't as cool as it was in the superior first SABATA. And, excuse me, Sabata as a circus act????????This all reminded me a bit of the SCREAM-trilogy, with the exception that the second film there was much better than here. The superior first one and the weak third one are however very similar in both series. Why all those unnecessary sequels? Why not leave people with the memory of a good film and not with that of some bad sequels? 4/10

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