Funny Halloween: Companeros (1970) (Blu-ray Review)

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Companeros (1970) (Blu-ray Review)

Directed By: Sergio Corbucci

Starring: Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, Jack Palance

Rated: R/Region A/2:35/1080p/Number of Discs 2

Where to get it: Blue Underground

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Yodlaf Peterson (Franco Nero of DJANGO) is a suave Swedish arms dealer with a love for fast money. Vasco (Tomas Milian of TRAFFIC) is a trigger-happy Mexican bandit with a hate for suave Swedish arms dealers. But when the two men team up to kidnap a professor who holds the key to a fortune in gold, they find themselves hunted by the American army, stalked by a marijuana-crazed sadist (Academy Award winner Jack Palance) and trapped in the middle of a revolution about to explode. Can these two enemies blast their way across Mexico together without killing each other first?

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Dust off your cowboy hats and toss away your razors! It is spaghetti western time here with Blue Underground! And about all I’d need to say about this one is we get Franco Nero, Tomas Milian, and Jack Palance all here together and that justifies watching this movie on its own before we even get into talking about the movie. The thing is, this is a fun movie and it packs some clever plot points. You have three great actors doing what they do best, but just don’t go into this thinking you are getting Django or even The Big Gundown. What we get isn’t at all bad, but it just doesn’t make it to that level. There is still people going at it with guns blazing and all sorts of plot turns that keep you interested and for most that is all you need in a movie like this.

The acting is by far the driving force behind this. It can even take something that was meant to be funny and didn’t turn out that funny a whole lot better and credit to that goes to the actors. There is as I noted above a cool plot and a lot of nice gun action. It isn’t a western that is on the same level as the other ones I’ve mentioned, but at the end of the day it is fun! The transfer here is really awesome and blows anything you’ve seen of it out of the water easily. Everything seems smooth, with great details and colors. The western setting just really pops on screen. Overall, it is another great release from Blue Underground.

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