Blood & Gold

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The Schutzstaffel have finally tracked you down, they've left you dangling on a rope and made you frown, a lass called Elsa sets you free, releasing you from your death tree, as the Nazis leave to find some gold in town. More encounters with the SS then ensue, where lots of shots are fired and grenades blow up too, turns out some townsfolk won't disclose, what's under the saviours pinned toes, there's cowardice, and there's also derring-do; as the story moves along you may just wonder, how many times you've seen a film where the foes plunder, as it's not original, it's quite tawdry and it's dull, my advice would be, to stay inside your bunker.

If this reminds you of a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western, but with nazis, you've seen this movie before. Imagine a town where one of its residents is rumored to have come into some gold bars. (Westerns always have gold bars.) The resident is long gone, so the residents search for the gold bars. A company of nazis come to town, having heard rumors about the gold. The leader of the nazi gang is just like the leader of any motorcycle gang or horse riding gang. The tropes you see in westerns are all there. The extras and other filler characters all go down in hails of gunfire. The main characters, of course, are only winged so they can continue fighting. Oh, you thought the Bad Guy was dead! Wrong. He miraculously recovers. Our Hero never remembers that in this type of movie the Bad Guy has to be killed multiple times before he stays dead. If you enjoy guilty pleasures and mindless shoot-em-ups, this movie is for you. Nice photography.

This is straight up the plot from an old spaghetti western, complete with hangings, gold, a woman on the farm, and everything in between. Even the music, the font and color of the credits is an homage to the western movies of yesteryear telling the tale of one man versus many. Now, change the setting from the Old West to the final days of WWII and you find yourself asking why is this not been done before? Add in some gratuitous violence and you'll be surprised how perfectly well the two ideas pair together and you won't be disappointed. Comparisons to Tarantino are accurate but there's nothing wrong with that!