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 becomes a drag.
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09/19/09
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
Raimi's movie borrows heavily from classic spaghetti westerns, but Raimi has a style of his own, and plenty of it.
02/03/07
A deadpan black comedy, Sam Raimi's fast-paced movie looks and sounds like a Leone oater but more so.
06/24/06
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10/09/05
Raimi's gimmicky but endlessly inventive direction gives it plenty of gas, and the excellent cast takes it the rest of the way.
09/02/05
Sharon Stone misses the mark on this one.
09/02/05
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06/14/05
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02/27/05
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02/25/05
Stylish Raimi western is violent, unpredictable.
10/30/04
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09/03/04
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04/30/04
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01/24/04
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10/09/03
Mr. Raimi is limited by a sketch mentality, which means his jokes tend to be over long before his films end. But his tastes for visual mischief and crazy, ill-advised homage can still make for sly, sporadic fun.
05/20/03
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05/14/03
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03/07/03
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