A fairly entertaining mix of director Lucio Fulci's usual excesses and a bit of rambling seventies style pretentiousness, Four Of The Apocalypse isn't a film I'd easily recommend to non-Fulci fans, though some spaghetti western aficionados might find it interesting.
Cult stars Fabio Testi, Michael J. Pollard, Harry Baird (in his final film), and Lynne Frederick are all good. However, squinty-eyed villain Tomas Milian is extremely nasty and steals the film from them, despite only limited screen-time, particularly when he feeds the four stars peyote and spits alcohol into the mouth of craven drunk Pollard, before forcing him to bark like a dog!
Late in the film, the film's unrelentingly downbeat tone gives way to a heart-warming sequence reminiscent of 3 Godfathers and a satisfying revenge finale.
The dated soft-rock score is pretty terrible though.
Cult stars Fabio Testi, Michael J. Pollard, Harry Baird (in his final film), and Lynne Frederick are all good. However, squinty-eyed villain Tomas Milian is extremely nasty and steals the film from them, despite only limited screen-time, particularly when he feeds the four stars peyote and spits alcohol into the mouth of craven drunk Pollard, before forcing him to bark like a dog!
Late in the film, the film's unrelentingly downbeat tone gives way to a heart-warming sequence reminiscent of 3 Godfathers and a satisfying revenge finale.
The dated soft-rock score is pretty terrible though.