The Quick and the Dead
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Synopsis
A female gunfighter returns to a frontier town where a dueling tournament is being held, which she enters in an effort to avenge her father's death.
Cast
- Sharon Stone
- Gene Hackman
- Russell Crowe
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Tobin Bell
- Roberts Blossom
- Kevin Conway
- Keith David
- Lance Henriksen
- Pat Hingle
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- Mar 28, 2022
1995-era Russell Crowe shoot me in a complicated way
David SimsJun 13, 2018A western by and for people whose brains have been fried by movies, the old dramatic tropes and stock characters have become so comfortably familiar that real pleasure must be mined from subtle subversions and flamboyant style. In other words, a spaghetti western, but one…
JoeApr 8, 2022Of all the ’90s movies critics got wrong, this one might be their worst blunder. Even after I fell in love with Sam Raimi I waited a long time to watch this, mostly because it had been beaten into me that this was a shallow, superficial, melodramatic Western. In fact, it’s…
Matt Singer - Apr 27, 2023
I get the accusations of this as a shallow technique/pastiche exercise for Raimi but I don't care. His overly dynamic, exaggerated comic-book visuals punching up these particular archetypes and iconography is just a total blast to watch in action. Every extreme dutch…
Josh LewisFeb 28, 2025Directors are still ripping off shots from this — just saw one nodding to the hole in Keith David’s head a few weeks back. Amusingly, this whole movie is a compendium homage to slick Leone-Eastwood stuff that Sam Raimi ingested, metastasized, and made bigger. It is now a…
Sean FennesseySep 22, 2013When I was a ten-year-old brat I watched this movie on tv. The next day I found out from some of my classmates that they also watched it. We loved it so much that we copied the dueling competition from the movie. We would spend our breaks pretending to be gunfighters,…
Florin Scanlon - May 4, 2022
If someone had told me twenty years ago there was a Sam Raimi movie that was basically Bloodsport with guns in the Wild West, I would have watched it a million times and made it my new personality.
Jamelle BouieApr 21, 2022cowgirlboss
Vinny SimmsJul 24, 2022Sam Raimi make a movie that isn’t the coolest thing ever filled with lively boyish delight and electrifying technical excellence challenge Difficulty level: IMPOSSIBLE
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- Orlando Ramone likedThe Quick and the Dead
A great Western with an awesome female hero (Sharon Stone) by Sam Raimi.
Edward Kronkvist likedThe Quick and the DeadA very funny western directed by the talented Sam Rami. It has a great cast like Sharon Stone, Leo DiCaprio and Russel Crow. The story also bears a lot of similarities to old Spaghetti westerns and perhaps the biggest one is that the story feels like a Clint Eastwood western.
Nick Dubberly likedThe Quick and the DeadThis was one of those that I kind of been wanting to watch for the longest time (30 years) but really wasn’t in a huge rush to, obviously. I couldn’t believe how stacked this cast was! I mean, Russell Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Keith David, Lance Henriksen, and Gary Sinise!
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Michael Ingram likedThe Quick and the DeadIncredibly underrated spaghetti inspired western from director Sam Raimi ( Dr. Strange 2, Evil Dead, Spider-Man. Sharon Stone, Russell Crowe and an adolescent Leonardo DiCaprio give worthy performances. Did I mention Gene Hackman is at his villainous best?
Brandon Letosky lovedThe Quick and the DeadFirst western I've ever watched and I'm 33. Completely caught me by surprise with how amazing it was! Sharon Stone and Leonardo Dicaprio were amazing in it. Couldn't recommend it enough, I love the while gun tournament and all the characters.
lysser lovedThe Quick and the DeadI just love classic Westerns and it was refreshing to see a woman as the main character. They didn’t water her down too much because she was a woman and the story was a classic but still very emotional.
- SDR2711 likedThe Quick and the Dead
Interesting twist on standard faire. Capitalizing on Stone's popularity at the time, the film wins with Hackman and a young Leo. Toss in a young Crowe and it makes for a much more interesting watch.
Izza P likedThe Quick and the DeadMy dad chose this for movie night--- didn't expect it to like it, but glad I gave it a shot! Also why is everyone so fine in this movie? Well, only the main cast of course...
Kward0610 lovedThe Quick and the DeadOne of the most underrated films of all time. It’s quirky and a bit campy, but this film is so much fun. One of my all time favorite westerns.
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Metacritic
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.
Marc Savlov
Austin Chronicle
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, who apparently believed that if she played her character as silent, still, impassive and mysterious, we would find that interesting. More swagger might have helped.
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
The Quick and the Dead is showy visually, full of pans and zooming close-ups. 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.
Kenneth Turan
Los Angeles Times
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