Four of the Apocalypse (Lucio Fulci, 1975)

5.5/10
Lucio Fulci's 1975 spaghetti western is a wildly uneven affair. It starts out well enough with four individuals (a gambler, a pregnant prostitute, an alcoholic and a man who sees ghosts) travelling together as the last survivors of a bandit attack on their town. It gets even better when Tomas Milian (The Big Gundown, Companeros, etc) shows up as an anti-Christ hippie gunslinger, but when he turns on them and leaves them for dead, he leaves the movie for dead too, because it turns into a crashing bore. Entirely too much time is spent on the prostitute's pregnancy leaving little room for the big revenge scene, which is a major letdown. There's other problems too - a ridiculously ill-fitting folksy soundtrack, a terrible English dub (the original Italian track is on the DVD, but unsubtitled), and some pretty bad acting. There's some flashes to suggest a better movie buried in here, but it's beyond the point of saving.