“For A Few Dollars More” is the middle instalment in the “Dollars” trilogy and it might be my favourite of the three; it’s certainly a lot more interesting than a “Fistful Of Dollars” and it doesn’t drag like “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly”.
In “For A Few Dollars More”, the ‘Man With No Name’ (Clint Eastwood “Sudden Impact”, “Hang ‘Em High”) is a bounty hunter out for the reward money but he’ll be forming an unlikely coalition with a rival bounty hunter (Lee Van Cleef “High Noon”). After the two combine forces, it’s off to bring in the outlaws.
I really like the Man With No Name character and I think Eastwood is brilliant here. Also, I think Van Cleef is excellent. I like how the two work together rather than be bitter rivals like in “The Good, The Bad and the Ugly” (Van Cleef plays a different character in that one). The scene where the two shoot the hats off of each other is arguably one of the best scenes in any Western movie to date. I think the other characters are okay but the one-liners and attitudes simply radiating from the leads will have you content.
“For A Few Dollars More” has pretty much everything that’s great about Westerns; there are great shootouts, great saloons sequences and all that stuff. I do enjoy the “Dollars” films because they have a great style and that’s what I remember most about them and not so much what happens in them. I think “For A Few Dollars More” might be the best because it really seemed to have me gripped from beginning to end much more tightly than the other two entries in the series but still they’re all worthy of viewing for any Western fan or indeed any fan of Clint Eastwood.