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The Quick and the Dead
Following the excitement of this movie which depicts the life of mysterious woman, Ellen, who seeks to avenge for her father, who's killed by the sadistic mayor of the Redemption town, Herod, and because of this she forced to enter a cast of outlaws and criminals for a dead brutal competition.
17 March 1955, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
24 September 1944, Copenhagen, Denmark
19 January 1942, Emporia, Virginia, USA
24 December 1957, Walnut Lake, Michigan, USA
October 30, 2004
Stylish Raimi western is violent, unpredictable.
January 01, 2000
You get lots of clothes here, but no emperor.
June 24, 2006
A deadpan black comedy, Sam Raimi's fast-paced movie looks and sounds like a Leone oater but more so.
September 19, 2009
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.
May 12, 2001
What 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.
February 03, 2007
Raimi's movie borrows heavily from classic spaghetti westerns, but Raimi has a style of his own, and plenty of it.
January 01, 2000
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.
September 02, 2005
Raimi's gimmicky but endlessly inventive direction gives it plenty of gas, and the excellent cast takes it the rest of the way.
February 13, 2001
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.
September 02, 2005
Sharon Stone misses the mark on this one.
March 11, 2015
Frequent gun violence in quirky '90s Western.
May 20, 2003
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.
