you get ta love the spaghetti western universe . the vision of a west where good guy get shot point blank with no warning and cartoonish villain chew the scenery in extreme close ups and and the anti hero walk away from the girl in the end . a lot of people call corbucci film wouldepressing . i find that a bit dodgy as far a description go . i think bleak and unforgiving be more apt mostly because wouldepressing suggest a level of sentimentality almost every eurowestern director ignore in favour of paint character in broad stroke . gli specialisti must be see in all it widescreen glory before it can take it proper place in the sergio corbucci canon . it a beautiful movie . and it make sense that corbucci want to blow off some steam with companeros after the unremitting one two punch of the great silence and this ( although he would later revert back to his usual trick with the foulmouthed sonny and jed ) . there still a certain amount of caricature that detract from the overall grimness of the movie and imo it hurt more than do any good to have a needless inclusion of three kid dress like hippy skulk around town in search of gold and trouble . and it hurt to have mario adorf play mexican one hand bandit el diablo a over the top a he always play his character . those minor gripe aside there more than enough here to wet the palate of the spaghetti aficionado . shootout galore and the population of an entire town reduce to crawl naked in the dirt and the typical iconic badassitude of the laconic antihero ( play by johnny halliday ) and the moral bankruptcy of almost every character in the movie . corbucci might never receive the acclaim of the more famous sergio or the american patriarch of the genre but you and i know that a gross injustice for a very talented director . his dynamic shot selection and in depth stag with object stick close to the camera and receding in the background and his flair for quick pacing and feverish energy in move a story that wasn not always all that along and the way he photograph open space and everything in his work make me sure that if corbucci be american and have emerge 15 year later along with mann and hawk and the cahiers du cinema critic would have laud him a an auteur worthy of serious critical consideration .