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List Price: $9.95 Our Price: $5.99 You Save: $3.96 Features • Anamorphic • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 10 February, 1995 DVD Release : 29 September, 1998 |
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The Quick and the Dead description Director Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead) tries gamely to recapture the exotic mysteries of spaghetti Westerns in this stylish but empty film, which stars Sharon Stone as a stranger who comes to the town of Redemption in time for an annual shooting contest. Her real motivations for being there are the stuff that might have found their way into a film by Sergio Leone--in fact, much of this film is a pastiche of Leone's greatest hits, including A Fistful of Dollars and Once upon a Time in America--but one can't quite believe Stone in the role. Gene Hackman gives a predictably solid performance as the town tyrant, and Leonardo DiCaprio is good as a lucky young gunslinger who gets to kiss the heroine. But not even the cast can help this failed project. Raimi brings a lot of razzle-dazzle to his camera work, but it doesn't make the film any more substantial. --Tom Keogh |
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| ♥♥♥♥♥ | How the west became a complete and utter travesty... |
| There are a lot of things wrong with this western. It has a great premise with lots of promise; a great cast that could and should deliver strong performances and yet it comes across overly campy and boring and ultimately forgettable. I was initially excited to see this film since I adore everything Russell Crowe (how many times have I uttered those words this past week) but when I saw this film a few years back I cringed at the thought that he starred in this drivel. I shrugged it off as a minor misstep in an impressive career and moved on. A few weeks back though my wife happened to rent this thinking I'd be excited to watch it. Having just watched the Crowe masterpiece 3:10 to Yuma' and salivating over every frame I decided that maybe I'd enjoy this movie now. Well, my opinion hasn't changed.
The Quick and the Dead' drops us in the dusty town of Redemption (such a clichA western name) and introduces us to its rowdy inhabitance. The town is ruled with an iron fist by tyrant John Herod who seems to thrive on the spilled blood of others. He has butted heads with reformed Cort, a man of God who has left his criminal ways of the past behind him. Herod refuses to let him forget the man he once was and tries to pressure him into signing up for his Quick Draw' contest. Cort refuses and thus makes himself Herod's prisoner. Then in walks Ellen, a young woman apparently scorned who has a vendetta against the evil Herod. She enters his contest in order to have her revenge by taking his life. Like I said, the premise has promise, but it all falls terribly flat. The biggest problem I have is the atrocity that is Sharon Stone. I'll never understand this woman's draw on the public. Her acting chops is the farthest thing from decent; in fact she's so horrid that the mere fact I LOVE' her performance in Casino' almost repulses me. She doesn't understand Ellen in the slightest and plays her so sullen and so dull that I wish they had cast someone slightly talented for the role. The only good thing I can say about Stone is that she hand picked Crowe for his role here; so at least she notices real talent despite her lack of it. DiCaprio is another drawback. I love what this kid became but this performance is too hammy for me to appreciate. Russell Crowe and Gene Hackman are the only redeeming factors to this film when it comes to acting. Crowe's performance, while not his finest, is strong and polished and Hackman is always top-notch when playing the villain. Sadly, they alone can't save this mess. I like the point I heard one reviewer make in regards to this film; that it's a Sam Raimi film and so it must be a cartoon. He then proceeded to make that a good thing but I can't do that. It is a cartoon but I don't think that was purposeful and that what makes it so horrific. When Stone tries to act hard, hurt or suffering she looks tired, bored and confused. Raimi tries to make something dramatic and meaningful and fails miserably. The ending was so corny and contrived that I couldn't stop rolling my eyes, even after they started aching and begging for mercy. In the end I went with two stars over the more appropriate on for the fact that both Crowe and Hackman at least deserve a star a piece for trying desperately to salvage this burning heap of trash. |
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