The Quick and the Dead
 | Directed by Sam Raimi Starring: Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobin Bell Sony Pictures, 1995, DVD Customer Rating: 120 reviews Recommend |
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Herod is the undisputed ruler of redemption a haven for miscreants of every type and the fastest killer in the west. On one day a mysterious young woman rides into town a six-shooter strapped to her hip and revenge burning in her heart. Shes come to kill herod but she finds that she is paralyzed by her past. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/23/2006 Starring: Sharon Stone Leonardo Di Caprio Run time: 105 minutes Rating: R Director: Sam Raimi
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
Title: The Quick and the Dead
Sales Rank: 11428 in DVD
Actor: Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobin Bell
Director: Sam Raimi
Studio: Sony Pictures, 1998-09-29, Theatrical Release: 1995-02-10
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC, Acpect Ratio 1.85:1
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 107 minutes
Package Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches, 0.25 pounds
- Good acting overcomes a lame plot
- Action movies are only as good as their villains. Heroics require really nasty bad guys.
Gene Hackman skillfully portrays an antagonist so mean you know he'd kill his own son. Sharon Stone, for the most part, credibly plays the protagonist, but her motivation for revenge seems filched from Harmonica in Sergio Leone's Once Upon… More reviews
- The Quick and the Dead
- Well cast and acted. This is a fantastic movie if you prefer violence to substance and story. This one should be one of the dead and forgotten.
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- Not Thr Complete Film
- It"s a shame that you cannot purchase an American copy of this American film in America. I had to send to Austrailia for a copy [ must be viewed on region-free player] that is complete. Europeans and Austrailians can see the complete movie but not us.
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- An Epic Western with Gunfights Galore
- Brilliantly weaving classic western themes into tantalizing backstories, unfolding through the interactions of allegorical characters that represent legends such as Calamity Jane and Billy the Kid, combined with the most duel-style gunfights of any movie in history, this is a singularly wonderful work of western cinema. I've seen The Quick and The Dead at least a half a dozen times,… More reviews
- Great Gift
- I bought this for my Father who is into all the old western, war time movies. He looked all over the place for this movie and could not find it, so I looked on Amazon and tah-dah! I ordered it and recieved it within three days, my Father didn't know I had found it. He was so happy, he's watched it at least four times, and… More reviews
