Once Upon a Time in the West

 So, when you think of westerns what comes to mind?  A dusty old west setting?  Good guys and bad guys?  A damsel in distress?  Cowboy clothes and six-shooters?

Well, they're all here in Sergio Leone's spaghetti western Once Upon a Time in the West.  The shots in this film are truly amazing and nearly every frame of this film is a work of art.  Several tracks of music in this film will stick in your head and they accentuate each moment and character like exclamations of a legend.  The pace of the film is slow, but each shot is like a highly detailed painting so the pace is appropriate to allow the viewer to absorb each wisp of dust, each dirty pore, and beautiful landscape of the desert west.

A classic that has aged remarkably well with the only sign of it being from the 60s is the sound quality.  The story may be slightly typical of westerns, yet it has plenty of intrigue to be refreshing and original.

10/10 -- Deservedly belongs among the rank of the classics.