Vashirdfel
Simply A Masterpiece
Listonixio
Fresh and Exciting
Abbigail Bush
what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.
Bezenby
The second Sabata film mixes the Mexican Revolution plot with the stolen Gold plot and manages to make it work through an avalanche of stupid characters and the fact that instead of the usual bounty hunters and bandits the bad guys are a bunch of arrogant Austrians up for a killing. One of them even says 'I'll be back!' Yul Bryner plays Sabata this time round, a bounty killer with a good heart and no concept of money. The money he makes from shoot outs goes to the local monastery (they don't approve!), so when he's roped into killing one of the local Austrian senior officers he's all for it, until he realises that this is your usual double crossing gold stealing plot.All is not lost. Even though this plot is played out like some Western frontier mine, we still get a few quirks to keep our attention, like Sal Borgese's mute bandit character. He doesn't say much, but he has two musket balls that he drops into special pockets in his shoes that he then fires at people's heads. He also has a friend who dances while the head bandit guy prepares to kill someone.There's also an insanely high body count even for a film like this, where most of Mexico is killed in a barrage of dynamite and bullets, and of course there's the tenuous relationship between Yul and the other good guy that results in gold swapping hands various times which leads to an ending which drags on slightly for those who have witnessed it several times by this point.
astrofilms-1
Hands down the best movie of the Sabata Trilogy. I saw all the movies in the Sabata Box DVD Trilogy set and Adios Sabata (Indio Black) was not even meant to be a third Sabata film but Lee Van Cleef was unavailable for this third Sabata film being on the Magnificent Seven Ride! So ironically the great actor from the original Magnificent Seven, Yul Brynner was cast!! Don't get me wrong Lee Van Cleef is marvelous as Sabata in the first two Sabata films, but Brynner is just better as Sabata in this last Sabata film. If you can get past some sloppy film production typical of Spaghetti Westerns (bad voice-over dubs, Italian actors playing Mexican characters, fake overacted gunshot deaths sometimes without even blood...etc) then you will be rewarded with a stylish, tongue-in-cheeky western that rivals the best Spaghetti Westerns ever made!!This Spaghetti Western has such a talented all-star cast, starting with the great thespian actor Yul Brynner who's gypsy style and charm bring depth to the character. And the musician Dean Reed who plays the slick yet tricky sidekick. The music from the great Italian composer Bruno Nicoli in this film rivals that of the maestro of film music, Ennio Morricone. The film music in Adios Sabata just ROCKS. Even the wardrobe is beautiful. This film was produced by Alberto Grimaldi who produced all the major Spaghetti Western including Sergio Leone's Dollar Trilogy. Even Quentin Tarantino has highly regarded this film and selected this film once for his film fest.Overall a slick Spaghetti Western complete with original electric guitar rock music, awesome gun-play / weapon gadgets, double/triple crosses, stylish wardrobe/props that make this movie a classic in the Spaghetti Western genre!!
FightingWesterner
Yul Brynner and Dean (The Red Elvis) Reed team up with a group of Mexican revolutionaries in order to steal a shipment of gold belonging to the invading Austrian army and use it to buy guns for the resistance. However, the vicious Austrian occupiers have a few tricks up their sleeves and so does Brynner.Yul's only real spaghetti western, his performance, flamboyant outfit, and neat gun-play elevates this very much typical, though well-made production to a higher level than it otherwise would have been. It's still too bland though.The score by frequent Ennio Morricone collaborator Bruno Nicolai is pretty good.From the producers and director of the earlier Sabata, this similarly themed film only became a sequel in the dubbing booth.
bkoganbing
In his one and only venture into the pasta western, Yul Brynner finds himself succeeding Lee Van Cleef as the mysterious gunfighter Sabata who gets himself involved in Mexican politics in trying to overthrow the Emperor Maximilian. There hasn't been a film yet where the Juaristas aren't the good guys, even in Juarez where Brian Aherne made a sympathetic if somewhat naive Maximilian. It's such a clear case of imperialism.But Yul isn't a total good guy and he teams up with three partners to steal a shipment of gold from the occupiers and give it to the Juaristas ostensibly. Actually the four of them are only as good as they have to be. And they've got another along, an American played by the only American actor in Adios Sabata, Dean Reed, who has an agenda all his own who keeps a positively explosive diary.As most of us know even those who get their history from films, the Emperor Maximilian was an Austrian, but who was put on the newly created Mexican throne by the French and sustained by the French army. But here we have Austrian occupiers including an Austrian commander who also has a private agenda. I'm betting the producers were thinking that German types make so much better villains than the French.Sabata's distinguishing characteristic was a rife that he had a long holster for and drew like a revolver. This rife had a unique horizontal magazine from where the bullets came. But the last chamber always had a cigar which Yul would light up after a killing well done.I'm not a fan of spaghetti westerns and don't usually give them good reviews. It's the American genre and should be done by Americans. This one is no exception. But I will say that Yul Brynner's cynical look throughout the film is quite priceless.
