Watch God Forgives... I Don't! For Free

Great Film overall

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Blood River (1967) or "God Forgives ... I Don't!" (USA) is just a standard Spaghetti Western that doesn't really interest the viewer that much. It has the team of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer and very little plot. It was fun as a kid, but now it's average.Filmed in Spain.The film is the first in a trilogy followed by Ace High (1968) and Boot Hill (1969).Also recommended:They Call Me Trinity (1970)Trinity Is Still My Name (1971)My Name Is Nobody (1973)Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

This is only my second viewing of a Terrence Hill/Bud Spencer collaboration, the other being 1972's "La Collina Degli Stivali" or "Boot Hill", the title I saw it under. I've yet to see a Trinity film, so maybe my opinion will change, but I don't see a whole lot to be enthused about regarding their output. "God Forgives... I Don't!" was better than "Boot Hill", an almost unintelligible affair made more complicated by a dark and muddy appearance that contributed to it's being hard to follow. This one for the most part took place during the light of day, and even though the story had a decent continuity, I didn't find it all that special or intriguing. What's more, I don't recall either Hill or Spencer mentioned by their credited characters' names, that of Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessey. Maybe they were, but the story didn't make it clear enough for me, and mentally I had to keep referencing them as Pretty Face and the 'fat guy'. On the other hand, outlaw Bill San Antonio (Frank Wolff) stood out nicely villainous in contrast. He might be the best reason for tuning in.The other troubling issue with the film version I saw today on the Encore Western Channel had to do with some clumsy editing. The best example I can think of was right at the finale when San Antonio was about to face a showdown with Pretty Face and Bessey. Somehow Bill took down the fat man (?), whereupon the Face caps him in the knees forcing him to a crawl. With time running out, Bill attempts to disarm the explosive with his teeth, there's a clumsy cutaway and then all of a sudden an explosion and it's all over. Not too suspenseful and definitely not too satisfying.I don't know, maybe back in the heyday of spaghetti Westerns, this might have been something new and different, but there are still enough better ones around, particularly Eastwood's trilogy. In fact, now that I think about it, that's kind of how Terence Hill's character strikes me, sort of a poor man's Clint Eastwood, who's own take as the Stranger leaves just a little something to be desired.

This is a review of the uncut version, not the cut 'comedy' version."Dio Perdona... Io No!" aka. "God Forgives.. I Don't!" is not only the first film with both Bud Spencer and Terence Hill in the leading parts, it is also one of their best movies. Although the movie has many gags and humorous parts, "God Forgives... I Don't!" is not one of the usual Spencer/Hill comedies, but a pretty brutal and rather serious Spaghetti Western.The movie starts with a train rolling into a town. Everybody on the train was massacred and the fortune it carried was stolen. Two gunslingers, Cat Stevens (Hill), and Hutch Bessy (Spencer) realize that the whole coup looks like the work of Outlaw Bill San Antonio. The mysterious thing about it is, however, that Cat killed San Antonio in a duel several months ago. On their search for the gold, the two get several clues that Bill San Antonio only staged his own death."God Forgives.. I Don't!" is definitely the most serious and brutal of the Spencer/Hill collaborations. Anyway, the movie also has many of the typical Spencer/Hill movie ingredients, like the numerous fistfights in which Spencer's character uses his typical hammering one punch technique. Spencer and Hill show that they are not only great as a team in comedies, but also in a serious Spaghetti Western. Another Highlight of this movie is the great performance of Spaghetti Western Star Frank Wolff as the evil Bill San Antonio. I also liked the score a lot, especially the part with the somehow aggressive, dynamic, classical choir.In Germany and Austria, this movie was released under three different titles. After the uncut version was released, it was re-released as a "Django" movie, and released again in its cut 'comedy version'. Terence Hill's character is also referred to as 'Django' in the uncut German version, and his dubbed voice is different to his dubbed voice in his later comedies.All told, "God Forgives... I Don't" is a great Spaghetti Western, not like the usual Spencer/Hill movies, but a pretty brutal and serious movie, and definitely one of their best collaborations. 8/10

This film is one of many films with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer that I can see over and over again without getting bored. It has a dark attitude and the acting is more serious than the Trinity films but have a light comic touch over it anyway. As all English version of a "Spagetti Western" the voices are dubbed afterwards, with or without the original actors voices. I first saw this film for the first time in the 70's and didn't pay so much attention of the dubbed voices then.When I saw it again for maybe the third time in the late 80's on my VCR, I suddenly realized that it wasn't Terence's voice at all, but a voice of an other actor I've heard many time over the years.Of course it is just a qualified guess from a movie freak, but I'm pretty shure that Terence's voice is replaced by the voice of the English actor Roger Moore.It is the sharp S'es and other characteristics in the voices that is giving him away.There is also some poor attempts to hide the English accent with a vage tone of American-Western dialect.I haven't seen any information yet that says that it is Roger Moore's voice but then again, I haven't seen any information that says that it isn't.If you have "God forgives, I don't" on video cassette or DVD, see it again, close your eyes and picture Roger Moore face/acting instead.What do you think now ?