Joe l'implacabile

"Dynamite Joe" must be the worst-ever Western film made. Albeit a Spaghetti Western it still is absolutely terrible and Sony Movies continually show this terrible film on television in the hope that viewers will think any other film on the Sony Movies Channel cannot be all bad compared to Dynamite Joe.

DYNAMITE JOE is a cheerful spaghetti western directed by the one and only Antonio Margheriti, who shoots with his typical aplomb: he brings a lightness of touch to the proceedings and fills his film with plenty of action too. Despite this, DYNAMITE JOE feels like a rather superficial movie, lacking in the kind of depth that makes a spaghetti western classic.

Too much gold disappears during transports, so that the bank director hires an expert to guard the next one: Dynamite Joe (Rik Van Nutter)! Bandits and corrupt business-men are already making plans how to get rid of him, but Joe is prepared for many enemies with plenty of explosives.

Anyone expecting another grim, operatic Italian revenge oater can skip Dynamite Joe. Rik van Nutter is an Eastwood lookalike from a few angles and Antonio Margheriti plays that up in the first few minutes before Joe goes back to a Robert Conrad/Wild Wild West style hero who's a specialist with explosives.

Spaghetti westerns are very variable in quality, not a lot of great ones and not many terrible ones either, somewhat in between. 'Dynamite Joe' is a relatively obscure film, except that the full film is on Youtube and it just aired on Movies4Men just now.

"Dynamite Joe" is a fairly obscure spaghetti western, rarely seen in the U.S.

What I will say in this one's defence is that it felt a little different for a spaghetti western. The tone was completely at odds for what we have come to expect from these types of films, with a central character who doesn't have deadly gun skills but instead is a dab hand with a stick of dynamite!