Mean spirited western is entertaining enough to get past its sometimes unsettling qualities.

An unflinchingly brutal western. Great form on Eastwood's half.

Eastwood plays a character so dark and uncompromising, his past roles in westerns seem like positively good guys. He tears the town apart with the complete consent of the townsfolk then finally dispatches the villains in an incredibly stylish climax.

Pretty humorous, and by the end your justice gland is bound to be throbbing.

As per usual, "Eastwood" and "Western" means high quality.

Paint the town red and call it Hell. God, I love Clint Eastwood movies.

Personally I find this to be a better movie than the Man With No Name trilogy. It's terribly brutal, dark and uncompromising yet, at the same time, it has an absolutely bizarre sense of justice and redemption. Clint Eastwood is absolutely superb in his absolute mockery of the town he claims he will help. This is an must see for any western movie fan, if you can stomach it.

You'd swear Sergio Leone directed this ambling, violence-ridden western

Love Clint, but that one didn't fully click with me. A woman enjoying her rape is one of the notable offenders.

creepy ass horror-western from clint. i dig it, it's brutal as shit.

Supposedly this film is the reason John Wayne refused to ever do a film with Eastwood, which is, in itself, the biggest of honors any western can hope to achieve. Picking up a trick or two from his time with Leone Eastwood presents the bleakest of revisionist westerns and adds a dash of spirituality and a hint of rape.