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  Review by Will ★★★★ 3

  I don't get why this film isn't talked about.
  I know that Sergio Leone has created some of the most iconic films of all time and it's kind of hard to make films that live up to that statement, but this is great. It's full of good comedy, great cinematography, brilliant performances, an amazing score and a really fun story.

  This is a hidden gem for sure.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★ 1

  "To me you are just a naked son of a bitch."

  Leone makes his arena of honor, the corrida circle, into the scene of a rape, the bank into a political prison, and lets a revolutionary and a criminal repeatedly swap positions. underneath it all there's just a cave full of dead people.

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  Review by reibureibu ★★★★★ 13

  Acts of solidarity contain love, and likewise love leaves signs of solidarity. The two are intertwined such that loving another is also enacting in solidarity with them, and once this happens you carry them with you in your life, you live with them instead of simply adjacent with them. The prior way of living has now fundamentally changed, and one cannot go back. True love is violent; revolution is violent. A real encounter (whether the stakes are one's love or one's life) is an act of violence that never lets one forget, that changes the presuppositions of one's existence.

  Miranda signifies the Mexican Revolution (whether he likes it or not) and Mallory is a Fenian revolutionary; both typify those who…

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  Review by Jizzmonkey ★ 4

  I was looking for the '70s (bush era) porno classic "Suck, You Ducker". But found this instead. Bad move watching it. It's a boring, awful film. The porno outclasses it in every way, especially musical score.

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  Review by theriverjordan ★★★½ 37

  “Duck You Sucker!” is Sergio Leone immolating the spaghetti Western with a pack of matches he pocketed off Jean-Luc Godard. 

  Beginning with an all-caps quote from Mao, it’s clear from the outset that “Duck” is not mucking around. Or maybe - it is. Maybe mucking around is all that it is. 

  The least-loved and least-discussed entry of Leone’s nearly flawless filmography, “Duck” is monumental for its unfettered bitterness. Leone - post “Once Upon a Time,” had grown tired with the direction of Italian Westerns — frustrated with how they had been appropriated as a political tool. 

  So what did Leone do? He pissed all over them. 

  No, really. “Duck” opens with its main character pissing over a hive of ants…

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  Review by Diloo ★★★★½ 6

  The 'ugly' forgotten duck-ling of the "Once Upon a Time" trilogy.
  
  This is the most unique Western by Sergio Leone, tons of dynamite and blending two unlikely narratives of the the IRA and the Mexican Revolution. A story about friendship, sacrifice and betrayal, this is a heartfelt swan song of "fully-directed by Leone" Westerns.

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★★½ 12

  Action! - Spaghetti alla Sergio: Il Leone del Western

  It's hard to argue from a purely objective standpoint that this isn't Leone's most overlooked film; in fact, I'd be willing to bet that until just a few seconds ago, very few of you even knew it existed.

  And in many ways, this movie seems like something Corbucci would have made, and did make, during his last period directing Westerns. It's a humorous and very violent picture set in during the Mexican Revolution, in which an odd couple are forced to band together to fight the enemy and learn some valuable lessons in the process. However, here, Leone delivers that particular ambition he always aims for to the film with some…

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  Review by Daniel ★★★★

  "Duck, you sucker!"

  In 1913, with Mexico engulfed in the Revolution, Juan Miranda (Rod Steiger), a Mexican outlaw leading a bandit family, crosses paths with silver prospector John H. Mallory (James Coburn), an explosives expert wanted as a terrorist in his native Ireland. Juan immediately sees a chance to fulfill his dream of robbing the Mesa Verde National Bank, and offers John a partnership ...

  Giù la testa ("Duck Your Head") is an epic spaghetti western film co-written and directed by Sergio Leone. It's the 2nd installment in the Once Upon a Time Trilogy.

  Coming after Leone's greatest masterpiece, C'era una volta il West (my review), which, together with C'era una volta in America, form his unofficial Once Upon a…

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  Review by 🇵🇱 Steve G 🐝 ★★★★ 13

  There's a thread on the IMDb message board for this film that's entitled 'Was Rod Steiger's accent the inspiration for Pacino's Tony Montana?' and I might not be able stop laughing all night.

  Once you hear it though, you will see why it's so funny. Because it is just as dreadful as Al Pacino's Scarface accent and similar in the way it mispronounces things in ways that no Mexican or Cuban has ever mispronounced them. I really couldn't tire of hearing Steiger pronounce 'America' as "Amarica" even though it was somewhat distracting in an otherwise fine film.

  Fortunately for Steiger, he's in good bad accent company. James Coburn comes up with a little beauty himself, further adding to my theory…

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  Review by LeSchroeck ★★★★ 13

  "The revolution is not a social dinner, a literary event, a drawing or a embroidary; It cannot be done with elegancy and courtesy. The revolution is an act of violence.“ - Mao Tse-Tung

  Abermals muss ich mich schämen. Schon wieder hat es ewig gebraucht, um eine Bildungslücke zu schließen, die schon längst hätte geschlossen werden können. Oder müssen. Denn auch in dieser befindet sich nahezu alles, was ich brauche, gerne sehe oder am Kino liebe: Zwei Antihelden, die mehr oder weniger freiwillig zusammenarbeiten müssen, Nahaufnahmen von zerfurchten Gesichtern (oder angepissten Ameisenhaufen), viel Herz für das kleine Volk, viel Spott für das reiche, ein sich wieder schleichend ins Hirn fressender Score von Enno Morricone, ewig lange Kamerafahrten oder Plansequenzen und Momente…

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  Review by comrade_yui ★★★★★ 1

  leone in total cartoon world, the messy politics of class struggle sketched with the explosive imagery of a graphic novel, the larger-than-life violence of his films carried to its nihilistic limit.

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  Review by Ethan Colburn ★★★★ 1

  They gave Sergio Leone dynamite, he had some fun.

  While the plot is lacking slightly in comparison to the other Sergio Leone westerns, it's still incredibly fun and well directed as you'd expect from Leone. He really exploded a lot of stuff, and the explosions were massive. Considering I don't think they were ever using miniatures, they looked extremely impressive.

  Rod Steiger is a face I always feel I should recognize, yet I never do until I look at the cast list. This movie was no different, yet it might be my favorite performance of his. Despite his over-the-top Mexican accent, he showcases a lot of range, and is super charismatic. James Coburn plays well opposite him as well, though I was somewhat confused by his constant flashbacks.

  If you love the Dollars trilogy, you'll like this too, it's slightly more lighthearted than the rest of the films, making it an easy watch despite the long runtime.