Character from The Dollars Trilogy by Sergio Leone / United Artists
The Bad — a cold-eyed mercenary who finishes every job he starts, including the ones he's already been paid to stop.
Angel Eyes operates on a simple principle: if someone pays him to do a job, he does it. If someone pays him to stop, he kills them too — because that's also a job. He has a professional code that is internally consistent and morally empty. He doesn't hate anyone. He just does what he was hired to do until the money runs out or the target does. He is the most genuinely dangerous character in the trilogy — not because of his speed but because of his patience and thoroughness. He will torture a prisoner for information without anger, simply as a method. He will track someone across a war zone because it's efficient. He wants the Confederate gold as a personal project, not a job — which is the one crack in his professionalism, and the one that costs him.
Lean and precise, wearing black — the villain's uniform in a film where everyone is compromised. Lee Van Cleef's angular face and dark eyes: watchful, patient, processing. He carries himself with the stillness of a man who has made peace with what he does. He doesn't rush because he doesn't need to.
Also known as: Angel Eyes, Sentenza, The Bad