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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Quality spaghetti western, very poor DVD, June 13, 2003
This review is from: A Professional Gun (DVD)
A Professional Gun is a very good spaghetti western by Sergio Corbucci that suffers from a horrible DVD release. The story follows a group of revolutionaries who are fighting the government during the Mexican revolution. Fighting alongside them is a mercenary who has supplied them with and taught them how to use more advanced weaponry. There is an uneasy alliance between the mercenary and the rebel leader that at times is very comical. To make things worse, the army has hired a gunman to hunt down both men and kill them. The movie on its own is very good with excellent action sequences, good characters, and another great score by Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicolai. Fans of spaghetti westerns should check out this movie but stay away from the DVD. Franco Nero stars as Kowalski, the mercenary who sees a chance to make some money during the revolution. He is good as usual with no complaints on my side. Tony Musante plays Paco, the revolutionary leader who makes the uneasy agreement with the foreign mercenary. Jack Palance gets top billing even though his part is rather small. Even with so little to do, Palance gives another great performance as the villain. Also, wait for the showdown at the end between two of the main characters, it should not be missed. The DVD is absolutely horrible. The picture and sound quality are brutal with very poor extras. The one thing that is kind of amusing is the trivia quiz. One of those things where its so bad its good. If you have a chance find the cleaned up widescreen presentation of this movie that TCM aired a couple of years ago. A great spaghetti western but watch out for this dud of a DVD!
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
One of Corbucci's Best, November 4, 2001
This review is from: A Professional Gun (DVD)
I remember seeing this movie on television,as a youngster,just when I was getting into the spaghetti western genre.I was glad to see that it has now been released again on DVD & VHS. Unfortunately I was a little disapointed in the overall video transferance.Someone please find a widescreen copy and have it remastered.The film's Director , the late great Sergio Corbucci has had two of his other minor masterpieces restored and released recently on DVD. Companeros (Anchor Bay DVD) and The Great Silence (Fantoma DVD).The quality is excellent on these so why not someone from Fantoma or Anchor Bay search out a better copy of this little gem,The Professional Gun aka:The Mercenary. Other than the poor transferance the movie is still worth a viewing for performances and story and it's reasonably priced too.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
One of the greatest.... but horrible DVD, August 14, 2005
This review is from: A Professional Gun (DVD)
Please please please someone bring this great spaghetti western IL MERCENARIO - A Professional Gun to DVD. Please uncut! Please widescreen! Stop releasing such horrible trash DVDs and give the film material to someone who will finally release this film in an appropriate way. Thousands if not millions of fans world wide are waiting for THIS film to be released on a good DVD. It's only available in Japan (sold out, no wonder!!!) and Italy (no english language track or subtitle) so please please release it!! Remaster it! Make it uncut and widescreen! Stop this full-screen horrible cheap-ass dvd stuff
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