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This film is by no means the best in the series, which is more of a compliment to the filmmaker than anything. Unlike most movie franchises where each sequel gets worse and worse, each sequel in the Dollars trilogy got better and better.

While "A Fistful of Dollars" is by no means the epic masterpiece of the later installment "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" it is still very fine and innovative work. Gone is the traditional story of the good cowboy versus the bad cowboy and in is a dark and gritty look at hatred and greed and the uncomplicated men who settled the United States. The Man With No Name shoots first and asks questions later. He doesn't look for a peaceful solution, he just shoots anyone in his way. It was not only this new type of character whom made this film so fascinated but Sergio Leone's camera-work and a bizarre score by Ennio Morricone. However, if you really don't care about all that technical junk but just want a good action film, then there is plenty of that. Bloody at times, gritty, dark, and fun. If you don't mind a few technical goofs and surrealism, then your in for a treat.

There is not a speck of entertainment in this entire film. There's not one scary, funny, or even interesting scene in this film. It advertises itself as a horror, then goes on to call itself a comedy. It doesn't even ATTEMPT humor. Neither does it attempt to be scary.

In order to not be bored by this film, you would have to be one of the most easily entertained people on earth. If you like this movie even a LITTLE BIT than you have no standard for what you watch at all. I'm having a very difficult time trying to understand what the filmmakers were trying to accomplish with this. Its not funny, scary, shocking, or intriguing. So was it supposed to be a drama? Because it really wasn't dramatic either.

Please just do yourself a favor and don't watch this film. Life is too precious to be wasting 90 minutes of it watching this.

Many remakes of horror classics never seem to be as good as the original. And that is mostly due to a different style of the new horror films, relying on gore instead of suspense. But unlike many horror classics, Friday the 13th was never a great film to begin with. But there were three things that kept us seeing each of the Friday the 13th films: naked teenagers, Jason, and creative murders. All of which there are plenty of in this flick.

Many critics have criticized this movie for being "cynical," and because most of the teenagers are so scummy. However, I personally thought that made the film much better. It made their deaths much more glorious. In all honesty, what horror fan has ever watched a Friday the 13th film and said "please don't let Jason kill that character" without the words "before she gets naked" at the end of the sentence? Not very many I would imagine.