"Where life had no value, death, sometimes, had its price. That is why the bounty killers appeared."

Very fun
Definitely a lot better than A Fistful of Dollars
Benefits a lot from being much more of a deliberately paced story with some actual character depth
AFoD is fun on its own as a short action piece but this has a little more substance
Pretty much the perfect length again too

Lee Van Cleef is great and plays off Clint…

"Why are you doing this for us?"
"...$500?"

Alright perhaps I was too harsh on this before
It's pretty cool I guess

Kinda perfect pacing honestly, short and sweet
Isn't Yojimbo like 2 hours? It's been a while since I saw that one and I it kinda dragging and probably the weakest Kurosawa film of the ones I've seen

Clint Eastwood is obviously pretty iconic but he's honestly pretty funny in an understated way
"Hello" *starts blasting*

The new…

My Conquest is the Sea of Stars was good, but just kinda felt like watching the pilot episode to a TV series (which I mean I guess is what it is, but still) - not that it was bad or anything
Overture to a New War, on the other hand, by virtue of its longer running time means we get to spend a lot more time seeing the personal moments in the characters' lives, which gives everything a greater impact…