Day 12: God's Gun (1976)

History
Lee Van Cleef is the man. After watching the Dollars Trilogy in one day with Slinker, I said to him that this guy should be digitally inserted into every movie ever made. Slinker remembered that comment and a few years later, found this movie along with another soon to be seen Lee Van Cleef movie for a dollar. Knowing that this was the best deal of the century, he picked it up.

I didn't actually see any of the movies until tonight, and for that I need to slap myself. Not because the movie is good, oh hell no. I should have seen it, of course, because it has Lee Van Cleef in it.

The main reason I didn't see this movie for so long was because I was skeptical about Lee Van Cleef playing a good guy, on top of that a priest. I mean, he's played a character that enters a man's house, eats his food, steals his money, and then shoots the man and his son. Now he's playing a priest? Secondly, the priest character dies like 10 minutes into the movie, so there isn't any Lee Van Cleef for a while. Thus, we started this movie a year ago, so we didn't get around to finishing it. Tonight, I saw it all.

Back to my comments about Lee Van Cleef needing to be in every movie ever made: This movie sort of comes close to that, since he plays two parts in the movie. So that priest character who died in the beginning? Well he'll be avenged by his look-alike brother!

What's it About?
Outlaws, led by Jack Palance are taking over a small town. There's this kid named Johnny who is friends with a priest. The priest gets killed, the outlaws take over the town, and Johnny goes to get help.

Thoughts
The kid, totally randomly, turns MUTE after the Priest gets killed. I don't know if that was done to add depth to the story, or whether the kid's lines were cut because he stole the director's Kit Kat bars, but either way it's totally unexpected.

Actually this movie is not that great, but Lee Van Cleef saves it as expected. He should have played 10 characters instead of 2 though. This movie has crazy music whenever something cool or exciting happens, and otherwise it has normal Western music, which is good. It also has corny death scenes, silly music and mediocre action which make this movie all right.

Rating
Oh yeah.