Review of El Topo (1970) by John N — 01 Jan 2009
The gunfighter El Topo and his young son ride through a desert to a village, whose inhabitants have been massacred. Bandits are nearby, torturing and killing the survivors. El Topo rescues a woman Mara, who leads him on a mission to find and defeat the four master gunmen of the desert.
Leaving his son with a group of monks, El Topo and Mara complete the mission, accompanied by a mysterious woman in black. The women leave El Topo wounded in the desert, where he is found by a clan of deformed people who take him to the remote cavern where they live.
Awakening years later, he goes with a dwarf woman to a nearby town, promising to dig a tunnel through which the cave-dwellers can escape. They find the town run by a vicious sheriff and home to a bizarre religious cult.
El Topo's son, now a man, is a monk in the town. The completion of the tunnel leads El Topo, the townspeople, and the cave-dwellers to a bloody and tragic end.
This review of El Topo (1970) was written by John N on 01 Jan 2009.
El Topo has generally received positive reviews.
Was this review helpful?
