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I really suffered with this film! I felt bleeding from my eyes! Why Sergio, seriously now, why? The whole idea of the film is that when you have given everything you had to offer to the westerns, you invent a new era. So, Sergio Leone remembers the Revolution of Mexico. And because he has used every rediculous idea with shooting in his previous films, he now finds... explosives! But, what western can it be, when you explode innocent people crossing by? So, the Revolution gave the context, that the exploded people may in the end be "not so good". Well, I think he failed even in that! I sympathized the victims, I hated Leone and his arrogant, amoralist protagonists!.. I didn't really manage to watch the whole film, to be true. But believe me, I watched more than I could stand. The scenery and the explosions look so fake. The miniature of the bridge is so obvious it is a model in scale. The visual effects are worse than those in the adult films of Gousgounis, if you know! Also, the film is even more amoralistic. The one protagonist is a bandit, ok, but also a crazy killer, who enjoys slaying innocent people. In the train, one guy begs him to spare him, "I have children", he says. The protagonist throws him off the train right away! Then he says the outrageous: "I have children too"!? The other protagonist is an Irish explosives expert. He enjoys doublecrossing his best friends! First, he doublecrossed IRA and his own counrty, and got found in Mexico as fugitive. Then he doublecrossed Mexicans, preparing robberies with the worst killers. Then he doublecrossed the killers, and then all from the beginning again! I wonder, what teaches us a film like this? To be a piece of crap?

The movie starts well: an island emergies on the border line between Greece and Turkey, and tension rises up. You expect to see something wonderful. But pretty much that is all! Nothing at all happens, you can sleep. We must mention here, that movies about conficts between Greece and Turkey on an Aegean island are very common lately. They most support Turkey saying nasty things against Greeks, presenting them as crazy Hitler's fans! Weird, if you imagine that these movies are made by Greeks and aim to the Greek public! They also usualy repeat the moto: "The Aegean belongs to the fish"! That is why I didn't go to watch this film in the sinema, and I watched it today on TV. So, this film is the most objective on the subject. It has some funny exaggerations, but is not a fanatic anti-Greek rabbish like the precenting films. It is more like a documentary. It shows the various types of Greek soldiers, that we all experienced during our national service. There is the fanatic who believes he can kill all Turks alone, the guy from Karditsa with the funny accent, the guy that is lazy and wants to just have a good time. Also the Chief, is as the most people who served many years: he drinks, is rude, lets his personal problems distract him from his obvious duty. Now the girls: are the weak part of the movie. There is no reason to be on the island, they act like idiots, they are just annoying! And the Chinese merchant too! Also the dream with Fureira (the singer) is rediculous! An insult to our intelligence! Unfortunatelly the film is the first 10 minutes, then it becomes very indiferent...