A Bullet for Sandoval

A Spanish spaghetti (or paella, or chorizo or jamón, if you like) western about how revenge isn’t always necessarily sweet. I would like to see the 105 minute version, but unfortunately the only version available has been cut by fifteen minutes. And it’s been cut pretty unsparingly and without any system. Not only do scenes not follow on from each other, they are often cut dead right in the middle. The greatest asset of the result is that it not only captures the attention, but it pulls you right in, despite the above said. Primarily it is the story, which isn’t a cheap pocket novel about revenge, but a real tragedy which first makes you feel the despair of a man who deserted from the army to save his true love and his son, only to lose everything and then in the second half the despair of a man who lost more than his family due to the first man. They hate each other, you will understand what steps both take and that is why the finale is so tragic; there are no winners, just losers. (01/27/2013)