Blu-ray Review – Face to Face

In his follow-up to "The Big Gundown," director Sergio Sollima continues to mine his fascination with gray areas of conscience and loyalty, instilling 1967's "Face to Face" with moral complexity that helps to support the picture's occasionally iffy dramatics. It's a western with meaning, using a history of Italian politics to inform its plot, and it when it settles down and explores character, it proves itself to be intelligent, lacking some needed urgency to work up necessary suspense. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com