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Title: Sergio Go Home
Review: If you think just Leone's westerns are intolerable, try this psuedo-American gangster monstrosity on for size. Clear plenty of time on your schedule, though; with intermission it's four hours long. All of his failings as a film-maker are magnified by the extra time: a complete lack of pacing, a totally unintelligible story line full of papier-mache characters, bad dialogue, too many meaningless close-ups, and yet another insufferable musical signature - this time on a pan-flute, God help us. As Americans I suppose we should be flattered at this type of mimickry but we make better westerns and gangster pictures than a foreign imitator can make. The lesson of Leone's career should be film what you know.
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