As it is, the film's more off-the-wall tendencies -- and there are plenty -- just seem ill at ease, if not completely out of place.
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The Quick and the Dead (1994)
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Reviews Counted:37
Fresh:21
Rotten:16
Average Rating:5.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Westerns
Synopsis: 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, BONNIE AND CLYDE, THE... [More]
Starring: Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe
Director: Sam Raimi
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Reviews for The Quick and the Dead
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10/09/05
Although Stone may be pleasing to some eyes, she's pretty small in the saddle here -- just an innocuous gender twist on the reluctant cowboy hero. And her story of hellbent revenge is about as compelling as a 30-second fragrance commercial.
01/01/00
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06/14/05
Raimi's choice to give the film a comic book-like aura of mingled camp and grit makes for some fitfully energetic and entertaining moments, but it's not enough to overcome The Quick and the Dead's primary fault.
01/01/00
Top CriticSam 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 becomes a drag.
09/19/09
Rarely dull, it is not noticeably compelling either, and as the derivative offshoot of a derivative genre, it inevitably runs out of energy well before any of its hotshots runs out of bullets.
02/13/01
Top CriticSharon Stone misses the mark on this one.
09/02/05
It's a mess, and one that even the pickled cowboys behind me found yawningly tedious, and that's not something I ever thought I'd be saying about a Sam Raimi movie with the word “dead” in the title.
01/01/00
You get lots of clothes here, but no emperor.
01/01/00
Top CriticWhat Raimi can't find is a center. He hankers for us to giggle at the brutal archetypes he's parodying and to warm to them, too. It won't wash, pardner.
05/12/01
Top CriticNo review available.
01/23/03
As preposterous as the plot was, there was never a line of Hackman dialogue that didn't sound as if he believed it. The same can't be said, alas, for Sharon Stone...
01/01/00
Top CriticWithout a real focus on Raimi's satirical sensibilities and acrobatic camera tricks, it's just a less-than-mediocre knock-off of Eastwood's oeuvre.
01/01/00
Perhaps another director could have gotten both tribute and parody to work together; in Raimi's hands, they instead cast doubt upon each other.
01/01/00
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09/03/04
No review available.
04/30/04
A deadpan black comedy, Sam Raimi's fast-paced movie looks and sounds like a Leone oater but more so.
06/24/06
There should be a law that, if you're going to make a terribly clichéd film, then you at least have to do something original in it. The Quick and the Dead exemplifies this.
01/01/00
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