The Quick And The Dead Movie Review
Sam raimi does a lot of interesting things in the quick and the dead and sharon stone plays a convincing female gunfighter but the one horse plot with no subplots to generate additional interest.
The quick and the dead movie review. The quick and the dead. 10 feb 1995 p c. Still the quick and the dead is one of my favorite sam raimi movies and those doubtful of the director s verisimilitude just need to check this out. Rotten tomatoes home of the tomatometer is the most trusted measurement of quality for movies tv.
Ellen an unknown female gunslinger rides into a small dingy and depressing prairie town with a secret as to her reason for showing up. Audience reviews for the quick and the dead mar 12 2013 at the height of sharon stone s popularity she was featured in a woman led western with a stellar cast hackman crowe and dicaprio. Early in the movie a character gets shot through the hat brim and the sun shines through the hole into the camera lens. The movie s story as you have grasped isn t much.
But the quick and the dead is not without its good points. It might be viewed as a comedy but i don t think that this was the director s intention and the actual laugh producing gags are not found here in abundance. That conscious absurdity is at the core of the quick and the dead. The quick and the dead seems to me to deliberately go in neither of these directions.
Shortly after her arrival a local preacher cort is thrown through the saloon doors while townfolk are signing up for a gun competition. It s a rousingly grotesque often wildly entertaining western horror comedy with co producer and star sharon stone as a sexy lady gunslinger taking on all comers in the gunfight tournament from hell. The definitive site for reviews trailers showtimes and tickets.