sergio corbucci vamos a matar and compañeros be a spaghetti western about a swedish weapon dealer and a shady mercenary who must smuggle an idealistic professor into mexico in the midst of a revolution . the movie try for the epic status of sergio leone the good and the bad and the ugly but fall short by a mile . where leone manage to create a poignant and albeit hyper stylize image of the old west and corbucci come close only in style and fails everywhere else . compañeros have some of the making of a classic represent a promising ( though unoriginal ) premise and a fantastic bad guy play by jack palance and a stunning supporting actress and and an excellent score by enio morricone . the scenery and costume design be also outstanding . but the story be underdeveloped and disjointed and at time ridiculous . too many flaw get in the way of what could have be a great movie represent the overdone moment of unfunny comic relief and the uninspired performance and and the confused political message make for an ultimately superficial caricature of the epic western . give it potential and it a shame that this movie turn out how it do . there a reason this movie be forget and while leone film be still talk about .