The spaghetti western genre continued with Ferdinando Baldi's "Texas, addio" ("Goodbye, Texas" in English). Franco Nero - the original Django who had a bit part in Quentin Tarantino's movie as the man who knows that the D is silent - plays a sheriff going after the man who killed his father. This movie doesn't make any pretense about being a masterpiece. It's a typical spaghetti western with music that sounds like that of Ennio Morricone. And there's no shortage of fights to go around.The movie got filmed near where "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" got filmed at the same time, and so Franco Nero and Clint Eastwood occasionally took the time to socialize. Those guys are truly the icons of Euro-westerns. This looks as if it was a fun movie to film. I recommend it.PS: Franco Nero was in a relationship with Vanessa Redgrave for many years. They had a son who directed her in an adaptation of Wallace Shawn's politically charged play "The Fever", co-starring Michael Moore and Angelina Jolie.

(aka: THE AVENGER)Sheriff Burt Sullivan (Franco Nero) leaves his job temporarily to go down to Mexico with his kid brother Jim (Alberto Dell'Acqua) and hunt down Cisco Delgado, the man who killed their father. Only there's an added surprise complication since the Delgado is related to Sullivan in a way which I won't reveal.I had no problem with the dubbing since it's no worse that what you find with many films in this genre, but there's some pretty sloppy editing here. For example, early in the movie Sullivan (Nero) is ambushed by a man with a rifle up in some rocks. He has a shootout with the man and eventually kills him, but he doesn't go over to investigate and find out who the man was or find some clues as to why he was after him. Instead he turns the other way and finds his brother Jim waiting down at the bottom of the hill, playing a banjo. Bizarre to say the least. The opening title track sung by Don Powell isn't any great shakes, either. Some of the later music cues in the film sound like surf instrumentals with a slightly Spanish tinge to them. Like out of KILL BILL or something. They sound pretty cool in light of the dreary opening track.I must say that I did like the Almeria locations that vary between desert and rocky high ground as well as beautiful canyons and a river that could pass for the Rio Grande, but that's not enough to take it over the edge, imo.The beautiful widescreen anamorphic Anchor Bay DVD comes with a 10 minute featurette where Franco Nero discusses the making of the film and how he used stuntmen in the fight scenes to make it look more believable, and he's right. Some of the fist fights do look good. As it is, it doesn't hold a candle to DJANGO or Nero's previous western before this, TEMPO DE MASSACRO (MASSACRE TIME) which is one of my favorites. I wish Anchor Bay would release that one since it not only stars Franco Nero, but was directed by master horror director, Lucio Fulci.In the meantime, I consider Texas, ADDIO below average. 4 out of 10 -

Sold (in Germany) as "Django 2", because it starred Franco Nero, many people expected another masterpiece such as Corbucci's original "Django", which "Texas Addio" certainly isn't. But compared to the average spaghetti western it still is a well made revenge story that will entertain most watchers. If they enjoy a bunch of cliches, like the lonely hero riding into the dying sun at the end of the movie...

What can you say about a film where the unbelievably poor dubbing was added almost thirty years after filming ? John Wayne, this is not ! Clearly produced by a studio not ordinarily used to the genre (or have the Spaniards been watching this for years rather than subtitle a real Western ?) Could probably have been better with American actors as the dubbed voices did not correlate with the facial expressions of the actors and emotion was often lacking in speech in this movie. Other than reservations with the acting and voice-overs, I found the plot to be rather drawn out, and the lack of scenery made me wonder if they could only afford one set which was re-painted for the other scenes. Might have been better if it was made in America, but probably more of a special interest movie to be viewed in the original language by people who perhaps have different tastes from the mainstream Western Genre