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Quigley Down Under

1990

Simon Wincer

Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo, Alan Rickman, Chris Haywood ...

5.7

830

Western Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from Montana by an Australian rancher paying a very high price. But when Quigley arrives Down Under, all is not as it seems.

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Quigley Down Under' is a handsome film, well-acted, and it's a shame the filmmakers didn't spend a little more energy on making it smarter and more original (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Variety	"Selleck has his best bigscreen casting so far here. He's thoroughly convincing. San Giacomo comes into her own as the feisty heroine. Rickman is a perfectly cast hissable villain"
		Time Out	"Selleck's easy charm carries the script through the sticky patches. Aussie director Wincer handles the action convincingly, and Rickman's splendidly snide villain is a real treat"
		Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"Vapid, cutesy, knockabout Western comedy (...) Old-fashioned"
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Mr. Wincer's enthusiasm for the material seems real, and he does occasionally manage lively action scenes, interesting scenery and workable humor (...) The screenplay is often as strange as it is dated"
		TV Guide	"Another failed attempt to make Tom Selleck a movie star, this is a handsomely mounted but vapid western, providing little entertainment (...) Thoroughly contrived, confused, and ultimately tedious"
		Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"'Quigley Down Under' at least knows what it's up to. It sets out to provide broad, old-fashioned movie entertainment, and on its own modest terms it delivers. It's just that the terms really aren't that exciting"
		Mark Cooper Empire	"The film falls down in its attempts to do everything at once, so that a potentially horrific scenario is often played out to comic effect. It doesn't quite work and the film manages to undermine itself (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

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