Dorathen Better Late Then Never

Tacticalin An absolute waste of money

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Invaderbank The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Wuchak RELEASED IN 1995 and directed by Sam Raimi, "The Quick and the Dead" stars Sharon Stone as a grim, nonchalant woman who, curiously, enters a dueling contest in a remote SW desert town "ruled" by outlaw Herod (Gene Hackman). A pacifist preacher is forced by Herod to participate in the contest, but he ain't not conventional minister (Russell Crowe). Other notable cast members include: Leonardo DiCaprio, Lance Henriksen, Tobin Bell, Keith David, Gary Sinise and Pat Hingle.The stunning Sharon Stone was co-producer and was responsible for getting the youthful & skinny DiCaprio in the cast, she even paid his salary (?!). Stone also apprehended New Zealander Crowe with this being his first American feature. When dressed in her tight leather pants Sharon was unable to sit down (lol). Interestingly, she fired her hottie stand-in because she was getting more attention from the crew on set (!). She later confessed that Crowe was her favorite on screen kisser, but kissing DiCaprio was like kissing her arm (lol).The tone is mythic in the manner of those notable spaghetti Westerns of the 60s, but with superior production values and obviously seminal to Tarantino Westerns ("Django Unchained" and "The Hateful Eight"). While the vibe isn't exactly realistic, the cast members take the material seriously and ham it up with gusto. You can tell they all had a great time. The movie's town bound and comic booky with larger-than-life characters, but it's not campy or comedic, although it's somewhat silly."The Quick and the Dead," the film's title, is presumably taken from 1 Peter 4:5 of the KJV translation of the Bible, which details how Christ "is ready to judge the quick and the dead." The phrase also appears in the Apostle's Creed with the same meaning. In both cases 'quick' is an Old English term for "living." The movie's title clearly plays off both the modern and archaic meanings in that there are two kinds of gunfighters in the Old West: those who are quick (that is, fast and alive) and those who are dead.THE MOVIE RUNS 107 minutes and was shot completely in Arizona (including Old Tucson). WRITER: Simon Moore.GRADE: B+

John austin It's a standard western shoot-em-up done up with a modern feminist twist. Gun fighters and lowlifes from all over the West head to the town of Redemption for a gunfight competition put on by the town's evil and corrupt leader, Herod, played by Gene Hackman.This movie is worth it just for Hackman's presence. He puts on an over the top performance as John Herod who proudly controls the very lives of the townspeople, and he's the deadliest shot of all- a man a lot of people would like to kill, especially Sharon Stone who comes to Redemption to settle an old score. Along the way she meets Russell Crowe, a real deal killer himself who's since reformed into a preacher. Sam Raimi gave this movie his usual great visual style, so you won't even notice most of the time that you're watching what's really an old movie, replete with every stock western character you ever saw. Some have said that The Quick and the Dead is really style over substance, and that's probably true. But if you're a fan of classic westerns, you'll like the fast pace & familiar characters.The only problem with this movie is the final resolution between Lady (Sharon Stone) and Herod. It's not too much of a secret in a movie like this that she finally puts a slug into the bad guy's chest at the end. They set her up as the mysterious gun fighter with an unknown motivation (although the audience gets told what it is), and Herod is the impossibly fast natural born killer that nobody can beat. Their confrontation is inevitable. However, the writers don't give you much to tell you that Lady has any chance in a gunfight against Herod. He should have blown her head right off. They should have set her up as a lightning fast natural with power handed down from her lawman father or foreshadow some type of secret edge over Herod. But we never really get that, so we have to assume she got him with just a lucky good-triumphs-over-evil bullet. If you can overlook that defect, you'll enjoy The Quick and the Dead.

Robert J. Maxwell When it comes to ritualized shootouts in the Old West, you can go too far -- and they have gone it.Sharon Stone can give a convincing performance when she has the chance, as in "Casino." But who -- even among the professionals here -- can give anything resembling a performance in this clumsy Kabuki Theater?The director seems to have aimed for an even more highly stylized spaghetti Western than the originals, but the target has been riddled with holes and the intent has finally lodged somewhere in the center mass of a first-person video game for ten-year-olds.A shame to do this to such a competent cast but they're all DOA. Yes. It's a one-way ticket to Boot Hill.The movie isn't worth as much attention as it's gotten.

gwnightscream Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio and Gary Sinise star in Sam Raimi's 1995 western. This takes place in small town, Redemption and Stone (Basic Instinct) plays Ellen, a female gunslinger who is seeking revenge for her father's murder when she was a child. Hackman (Superman) plays Herod, the town's former outlaw turned mayor who was responsible. She enters in a gunfighting contest held by him and tries to face him. Crowe (Gladiator) plays Cort, a preacher who was once part of Herod's gang who helps Ellen, DiCaprio (Titanic) plays Kid, a young man who was raised by Herod who also befriends her and Sinise (Forrest Gump) plays Ellen's father who was a marshal. This is a good western with a good cast, Hackman is a great bad guy as usual and Alan Silvestri's score is also great. I recommend this.