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The Quick and the Dead

1995

Sam Raimi

Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio ...

4.7

15,425

Western. Action Sharon Stone stars as Ellen, a beautiful gunslinger with a cloudy past. She arrives in the town of Redemption with a bone to pick, namely with one John Herod (Gene Hackman), with whom she shares a shady history. Ellen signs up for the annual quick-draw contest, which awards $230,000 to the winner, but her real motivation is revenge. Raimi incorporates beautiful photography and camerawork, and surprising new twists to the familiar ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Hackman somehow survives the material (...) The same can't be said, alas, for Sharon Stone (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"A rousingly grotesque, often wildly entertaining western horror-comedy"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"Sam Raimi tries to do a Sergio Leone, and though this 1995 feature is highly enjoyable in spots, it doesn't come across as very convincing, perhaps because nothing can turn Sharon Stone into Charles Bronson"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Despite director Sam Raimi’s hyperstylized efforts to whip up action and laughs, The Quick and the Dead is deeply shallow and damned silly."	NEG
United States	Desson Howe The Washington Post	The Quick and the Dead is made bearable by director Sam Raimi, who bombards us with frenetic editing (...) But all the stylistic sleight of hand in the world can't hide the central problem: The star is more Dead than Quick"	NEG

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