The Colossus of Rhodes

I think it’s obvious why Sergio Leone’s first credited feature directing credit gets ignored by most people. It contains none of his stylistic flourishes that he became known for, is removed from the Italianized version of America he liked to set his films in, and feels wildly generic. It feels like a film that any talent working in the Italian studio system in the early 60s could have tackled with identical results. It’s also boring and kind of just outright bad.

Set on the island city-s...