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Poke: Eastwood and van Cleef, who later see themselves on opposite sides in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, team up for this one, and its awesome. Lees revenge arc is the most compelling and satisfying when it reaches its end. Awesome tag-team action from the two legends.

CoolCly: I really loved this movie. I felt like it took what a Fistful of Dollars did and created a more complete movie. A fully complete movie.

The villain feels like a more fleshed out version of Ramone from the first movie (and I think its played by the same actor).

I REALLY liked the other bounty hunter. The same actor plays the villain in the third movie but I like him a lot better here. They set him up with his own style with his specialty guns, and I love it.

The standoff of bounty hunters in the street could be the coolest thing ive ever seen.

I felt like they got a bit too cute with the shenanigans they played talking to each other and chatting with the bad guys of course it led to them getting caught and beat up.

But the final music box shoot out was phenomenal. I loved this movie.

10/10

KBM: After being underwhelmed by the first installment of Leone's Dollars trilogy, I was more than pleasantly surprised by For a Few Dollars More, which gave me much more of a plot and character development to latch onto, and felt like a very natural stepping stone between that and the operatic epic that was The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Gian Maria Volont's talents are put to much better use here than in A Fistful of Dollars he is incredibly menacing here and the flashbacks and the pocketwatch as a plot device are all very effective. It's all so unflinching and far more interesting than that first installment managed to be with its story of petty smuggler squabbles. If the final showdown feels a bit anticlimactic, it's only by comparison with what came immediately afterwards in the Leone oeuvre.

Karo: The further adventures of the lone cowboy searching for his name. He and a rival bounty hunter go after the same bandit who is planning the biggest bank heist the west has ever seen.
It is a big improvement on the previous dollars outing in pretty much every regard, the characterization is much better, and the effects while still not great at least no longer scrape the bottom of the barrel.
The villain is somewhat memorable, which on this list goes a long way. He is a complicated and slightly crazy character, and he and his gang crumble from being a bunch of greedy bastards, rather then from being just too stupid to live like the bad guys from the first movie.
Looks like all it took to have Sergio make a decent movie was giving him, well, a few dollars more.

Inviso: This was an interesting one for me, because you can definitely see some of the same plot points being hit as occurred in A Fistful of Dollars, but this film manages to be its own thing. For starts, the introduction of a second, overpowered protagonist allowed for some unique storytelling. Not only do you have Clint Eastwood as a clever rogue in his own right, but suddenly hes dueling with Lee Van Cleef as a similarly-clever bounty hunter, out for a big score himself. While they butt heads and try to backstab each other on multiple occasions, its interesting to see them come together to take out an entire bank robbery gang with only two men. And the level of planning involved in them not only securing their bounties, but also MAKING OFF WITH THE SPOILS OF A BANK ROBBERY, is amazing to me. Throw in Indio as a slowly-degenerating villain who is overpowered and treacherous in his own right (seriously, the double-crosses in the movies climax are wonderful to watch), and this was a solid second entry in the trilogy.

Johnbobb: For a Few Dollars More exists in a weird spot. Not as fresh as A Fistful of Dollars, but not as wide-scale or refined as The Good the Bad and the Dollars. Eastwood's character changes very little dollars throughout the three, which I was expecting, but what I didn't expect was how much overlap the three dollars have. This one got the short dollar for my taste, Volente was better as the cleverly evil family man in Fistful, while Van Cleef was better as the shadowy merc in Good/Bad/Dollars. That's not to say anything here is bad; Leone and Morricone are still top dollar, particularly compared to anyone else in their field at the time, this was just a slight step down from the other two dollars.
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