Django, Prepare a Coffin

the ending was slick and satisfying, and terence hill is a legend in his own right, but this semi-official sequel never makes the best of its initial premise. it's not bad though, and 90+ minutes with hill's django is still 90+ rolicking minutes of fist fights, shootouts, and one liners- all filtered through spaghetti western 'cool'. the original music would've also bolstered this a fair bit. the score and the songs don't do much for me here, and i found myself actually aggressively humming the classic tune in my head over the opening credits. you really could do worse with westerns. it's at... read more

When his wife is murdered by the henchmen of a friend who's amassing gold to finance his political career, Django creates an army of men he saved from hanging to organize his revenge. A prequel of sorts of Sergio Corbucci's ultra-violent "Django", "Prepare a Coffin" replaces Franco Nero with an impassible Terence Hill and sends him through the motions of a loosely plotted retribution story. Strictly for spaghetti western completists. read more