Waste of time

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Giuseppe Rosati's Western with brief touches of parody is packed with noisy action and silly humor . A very funny Western about some valiant soldiers who attempt to retrieve a shipment and rescue a damsel in distress . Italian-Spanish co-production by Horse S.A . and Plata S.A. Productions , full of action , exaggerated characters , crossfire and lots of humor . This Spaghetti Western concerns about robbing a valuable arms shipment . The thieves result to be some rebel Mexicans led by Angelo Sanchez (Simón Andreu) . Captain Chadwell (Stephen Boyd) , Lieutenant Junger (Howard Ross) and Corp. Washington Smith (Harry Baird) are sent by a Major (Daniele Vargas) to help their colleagues of Fort Apache to recover stolen weapons . A roguish bounty hunter called Korano (Gianni Garko) accompanies them . All of them team up as four unlikely heroes . This is a surprisingly low-key Spaghetti Western in which four diverse characters joining forces to find crazy General Mueller (Alfredo Mayo) , save a kidnapped lady (Teresa Gimpera) and retrieve a rescue .Acceptable S.W. with comical and ironical elements about a relentless as well as exciting pursuit carried out by four peculiar characters set against spectacular scenery of Almeria . The film mingles noisy action , chases , high body-count and it's fast moving and quite entertaining . There is plenty of action in the movie , guaranteeing shootouts , fights or stunts every few minutes . The dangerous assignment is set against stark environment , risked narrow passes , and hazardous trails . This Western is superior than subsequent Spaghetti entries because it displays stirring adventures , shot'em up , riding pursuits , some touches of humor with tongue-in-cheek and turns to be pretty amusing . The picture mingles violence , thrills , fights and it's fast moving and for that reason results to be entertaining . Fun screenplay full of twisted incidents and funny situations by Enrique Llovet and the same director Giuseppe Rosati . Here Gianni Garco or John Garko steals the show as Muslim Korano , he is very fine , he ravages the screen , he jumps , shoots , disguises , bounds and leaps , hit and run ; besides , he recites Coran sentences . Garco is well known by the mythic personage Sartana , but he also starred other offbeat Western characters such as ¨Holy Ghost¨, ¨Jonny Forest¨ and ¨Camposanto¨ . The usual featuring a fading Hollywood star to correspond ¨Stephen Boyd¨ , the notorious star of Ben Hur , who plays a sympathetic Captain ; Boyd performed a few Spaghettis such as ¨Massacre at Condor Pass¨, ¨A man called Noon¨ and Ana Coulder¨. Furthermore , it appears ordinary secondaries of Spaghetti/Paella Western as Spanish actors : Teresa Gimpera , Helga Line , Simon Andreu , Luis Gaspar as well as Italian players : Enzo Fiermonte , Romano Puppo , Daniele Vargas , Guido Lollobrigida , among others . Special mention for Alfredo Mayo playing a nutty General and Napoleon fan , in a really hilarious and excessive role Excellent cameraman Godofredo Pacheco makes a magnificent photography showing barren outdoors, rocky defiles , dirty landscapes under a glimmer sun shot on desert of Tabernas , Almeria , Andalucia , Spain . As it displays a striking cinematography in Eastmancolor/Cromoscope with negative well processed . The musician Nino Fidenco creates a pretty good Spaghetti soundtrack , including catching sounds and attractive songs , being perfectly conducted by ordinary Dell Orso . Giuseppe Rosati 's direction is well crafted , here he's more cynical and humorous and less inclined toward grisly violence and packs too much action , but especially this thrilling Western contains broad comedy . Rosati wrote and directed a few films , most of them to belong the ¨Poliziotteschi genre¨ such as The Perfect Crime" , "The Left Hand of the Law" , "The Last Chance" , "Hot Stuff" . ¨Campa Carogna... la Taglia Cresce¨ also titled ¨Charge!¨ or ¨Those Dirty Dogs¨ results to be his only Spaghetti Western , in which he makes a decent work .

If you enjoy spaghetti westerns as I do, more likely than not you will love CHARGE! (a.k.a. CAMPA CAROGNA... LA TAGLIA CRESCE) The trademarks of great spaghetti westerns are in full force here. The musical score by Nico Fidenco is tangy, and you'll be humming the theme song long after the movie is over. The locations are well-chosen, looking bleak and haunting. In fact, the whole look of the movie is great, with a worn and dusty look hanging over every scene that makes for great atmosphere. And there are some great action sequences, ranging from gun fights to man-to-man struggles. As an added bonus, the script is of interest as well, going off in many different directions that makes the story less predictable than usual. About the only thing that doesn't work in the movie is a slapstick fight sequence, which is not only unfunny, it also doesn't match the tone of the rest of the movie. But that's a minor quibble. This is one spaghetti western that's definitely worth a search for.

Charge! (it's English title) is a breezy and colorful but unoriginal adventure about a team of Army specialists who team up with a blonde Muslim bounty hunter (!) to locate a cache of guns and an officer's daughter that were taken by a violent band of Mexican revolutionaries. Their only hope to finding them rests on their ability to track a wily bandit back to their base of operations.This has some good gun battles and a rowdy barracks brawl but the well-worn plot's too loose and conventional to be too entertaining. However, it's not boring. It's rugged enough to satisfy most fans of Italian westerns and there's some interesting scenery.The score is pretty good too, with a theme song co-written and sang by it's star Stephen Boyd!

This is a fairly decent spaghetti western that is elevated by having a fantastic music score.Fidenco's score is definitely one of the better Eurowestern soundtracks, and one I'd like to find on a CD if it is available. It's got spaghetti style in spades, is very catchy, and is sure to please anyone who loves spaghetti western music.The movie has plenty of action, but lacks the operatic drama of the great revenge/showdown Eurowesterns. It's about 3 soldiers and a bounty hunter working together to bring down a large gang of Mexican outlaws headed by an insane fool who calls himself El Supremo. He is little more than a clown, and it makes you wonder why his gang doesn't just do away with him and pick a new leader. He is kind of amusing though, and definitely better than the usual type of comic relief characters one sometimes sees in these films.The story is nothing groundbreaking, but is entertaining enough to keep one interested from start to finish. It's got lots of action, explosions, machine gunning, and some humorous moments.There is one part of this that just didn't work for me. It is when Johnny Garko has a gun hidden under an umbrella, and it turns out to be a machine gun that is way too small and light for the era in which the story takes place. This type of gun wouldn't exist for at least another 50 years! I can understand poetic license, but this really didn't add anything to the movie. They should have just made it a rifle.The acting from Garko and the rest of the cast is pretty solid for this type of film. No real complaints there.Overall, it's a fun film worth watching for spaghetti western fans. Just relax with a cold beer, a bowl of popcorn, and don't take it too seriously.