Don't Wait, Django… Shoot! (1967)

Boring

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

After wasting 90 minutes watching this, I must be mad doing a review, but there are only seven others and one of them gives it a ten rating. Nice that the guy enjoyed it but can he not see that "A Fistful of Dollars", say, is maybe just a little bit better? Or does his amp go up to 11? Oh well, if I save one person from watching this, it will all be worthwhile.I suggest reading the one critic review, which gives more than you need to know of the minimal excuse for a plot and points out that there's nothing remarkable here, either good or bad. That's indeed the main impression – just nothing. But it's worse than that – I swear no-one involved in making this even cared. The acting is nonexistent – only Django's sister and director Mulargia as a bad guy seem even to be trying. And OMG, the plot! We open with the murder of Django's father. Django shows up and on hearing this dreadful news, shows no emotion – but then he never does, whether because he's too tough for such trivia as feelings or, more likely, he knows he can't act so why bother to try? Revenge for a murdered father – the ultimate plot-driver in this macho world, but our hero gets that revenge 15 minutes in and the rest of the movie is about who gets some bag of money. So superior is our Django that no opponent or combination of opponents pose the least threat and the fight-scenes have no interest at all. In fact he has only one possible weakness – the sister. So what does he do? Of course – leaves her unguarded where all the bad guys know she is and goes to sit in the saloon doing nothing. And what happens next? Well, I wouldn't want to, er, spoil it for you (?!?) The stuff the bad guys do makes no more sense. None of them go after the money, instead riding around killing one another off for reasons no-one ever bothers to explain. Had Django not showed up at all, it seems the outcome would have been much the same. If only he hadn't – then no-one would have had to watch this nonsense.

Here is another film which gives the name Django to the title character as an after-thought, in order to cash in on the popularity of that spaghetti western series. In this one, a gang of bandits kill a man who turns out to be Django's father which of course turns out to be pretty bad news for those criminals in the long run. And there's some missing money, or something.This one stars Ivan Rassimov in the title role, yet he was completely unrecognisable here to me, so much so I thought there must have been a mistake in the credits here. Needless to say it turns out it was Rassimov but I guess he didn't make too much of an impression here, which is surprising given how memorable he was in some later 70's giallo flicks. I guess the western genre just wasn't too suited to him really. Much better was his sister Rada, who would also go on to appear in a prominent giallo, namely Dario Argento's Cat o' Nine Tails (1971). The reason I think I am rambling on about other movies is that this flick was so incredibly forgettable. Like many standard Italian westerns it contains nothing new or very interesting and instead just gives us more of the same. This isn't always a bad thing of course but when it's delivered in such an under par manner it gets old pretty quick. This one is strictly for die-hard fans of this sub-genre.

This film should really be called Wait Django…just wait because that's what he does for most of the film! Periodically some guys turn up to be shot but it's all about the waiting.Y'see, Django (this time played by Ivan "I'm a man, not a fish" Rassimov) is out for revenge after some bandits double cross his dad, steal his dad's money, then steal the money from themselves, then get themselves killed by another guy who steals his dad's money, then hides in a hotel with Django outside while some other guys come to Django's house and are all like 'where's Django at?', who then get themselves killed so some other guys turn up asking "Where's those guys at who were asking where Django's at?" and so on and so forth until just about everyone ends up dead.Ivan and Rada Rassimov really look alike, eh? Never noticed that before. This one at least tries to be different, but in a rather uneventful way that must have saved a fortune on locations –Seriously, there's like four different locations here – Django's house, Bad guy number one's house, the village where the guy hides out, and bad guy number two's ranch. That's it! Thrown in a comic drunk guy, a fat sidekick and a whole lot of doing nothing and there's your film.Good 'nervously tapping a silver dollar on a table' action though

This Spaghetti Western from Mulargia is a very nice B-Movie with good actors, music and atmosphere.The most time of the movie is placed in a little town and that is very good for the atmosphere of the movie. Ivan Rassimov is very good in the part of Django and also Petro Sanchez is a very good partner for him. Rassimov's sister plays his real sister Rada. You can also see the writer and director Vincenzo Musolino in the part of Hondo. The great score is composed by Felice Di Stefano who also composed a few other scores for Mulargia and Musolino.All in all this Western is a great B-Movie and a must see for Spaghetti fans.