The most experimental, and ambitious film of the trilogy of power by Elio Petri, it's also the less 'classic'. This La proprietà non è più un furto fails exactly on the aspirations. It is too demanding to itself.... I personally didn't like the choice to let them talk in roman dialect, because it makes it look too amateur. Besides I see the Ugo Tognazzi test as one of the most hyper charged, and far from real... I know it's because this is the Brecht's verfremdungseffekt kind of film, but it's really too much. Anyway it's just like any other Petri's film: as innovative as apocalyptic and prophetic.
the most successful film by Dino Risi, even if based only on the constrast bewtween the main characters, is a good film, clever, and funny. The problem is that it's too demanding, and it fails balancing comedy and tragedy.
Maybe the best 'Spaghetti Western', Once Upon a Time in the West is the classical nostalgic film about the end of the myth of the frontier.
Written together with Bernardo Bertolucci, Dario Argento and Sergio Donati, is nothing more than a refinement of previous Westerns of Sergio Leone, "the good the bad and the ugly", with a touch more American, and precise, and washing away that grotesque that sticks in the precedent movie.
What energizes the film is substantially the strong motivation of revenge that motivates the hero Charles Bronson -here replacing fully Clint Eastwood, even if the film is slightly impersonal, especially in the first part-
The most successful is in any case the way the characters are painted, so not completely Manichean, but connected to the classic figures of the west-western