Day of Anger is a curious western with a psychedelic (almost James Bond like) opening and some strange storytelling choices.
Lee Van Cleef takes a young garbage boy under his wing, but instead of teaching the boy, he just hits him half the movie. Given the way the main character looks up to Lee and the fact that he is played by Cleef, we aren't really sure whether Cleef is good or bad (although I wasn't really rooting for him, despite the fact that he's played by one of spaghetti westerns' most prominent protagonists).
But in the end, Cleef ends up killing the main character's step-father, and the main character ends up killing Cleef. A risky move, and while Lee's character's writing didn't really work out in the film's favor, the risk was admirable enough to land the film a solid IMDB rating.
There's some cool action aided by a great score, and while the film definitely could have been better, at the end of the day, it's a spaghetti western. I'd only recommend it to Spaghetti western and Lee Van Cleef fans, but I admire the risks they took by killing off Lee Van Cleef at the finish of the film.
Lee Van Cleef takes a young garbage boy under his wing, but instead of teaching the boy, he just hits him half the movie. Given the way the main character looks up to Lee and the fact that he is played by Cleef, we aren't really sure whether Cleef is good or bad (although I wasn't really rooting for him, despite the fact that he's played by one of spaghetti westerns' most prominent protagonists).
But in the end, Cleef ends up killing the main character's step-father, and the main character ends up killing Cleef. A risky move, and while Lee's character's writing didn't really work out in the film's favor, the risk was admirable enough to land the film a solid IMDB rating.
There's some cool action aided by a great score, and while the film definitely could have been better, at the end of the day, it's a spaghetti western. I'd only recommend it to Spaghetti western and Lee Van Cleef fans, but I admire the risks they took by killing off Lee Van Cleef at the finish of the film.