With Dead for A Dollar, Walter Hill asks you if you are on his side or not

The right thing this time try to do it Christoph Waltzwho plays this European bounty hunter in America, tough and all-in-one man (it was to be sworn), skilled gunslinger with no family who meets an even tougher woman, played by Rachel Brosnahanthat is to say The fabulous Mrs. Maisel. She is therefore once again someone with a noble and high-ranking bearing who ends up in a low context, in which however she knows how to be at ease without denying her origins. She carries guns of her and defends herself and others so as not to go back to the man who abused her.

Own Christoph Waltz And Rachel Brosnahan they are the only two actors who act with meaning in this otherwise badly declaimed film. They both have such a strong craft that, even on an obviously chaotic set in which another titan like Willem Dafoe (crazy card outside the events that enters at a certain point) fails to give the best, they work with experience to chisel all in all classic characters. She designed according to the typical dictates of western of the golden age, he instead much more from the west of the 70s. Together they have great chemistry.

The rest is a disaster toned in sepia (what a bad idea!), written quite poorly and in which the action seems to be added afterwards, positioned in certain precise points, self-contained, always disconnected from the story except, of course, the great final confrontation and the duel (some may consider the fact that in a western of Walter Hill there is a final duel?) which is really unnecessary and seems attached with tape as an appendix to the script sheets.

Here, however, the distinction mentioned at the beginning returns. We are in front of a film by Walter Hill, probably one of the last. And that a person who made history in this genre (even many of his films not set in the old west they play and work like westerns) yes close with a duel between two old gunslingers but with iron values ​​who do not know how to give up their roles, well it can easily mean nothing to many but for a heart that beats on that side of the cinema, net of the film’s problems, it’s a level finale.