The Quick and the Dead
A mysterious woman gunslinger, Ellen (Sharon Stone), saunters into the town of Redemption that is owned by a ruthless gunslinger to avenge her father. In order to do it, she joins a deadly dueling competition in an attempt to exact revenge.
29 May 1942, New York City, New York, USA
25 July 1914, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 May 1940, New York City, New York, USA
24 September 1944, Copenhagen, Denmark
7 April 1964, Wellington, New Zealand
17 March 1955, Blue Island, Illinois, USA
7 August 1942, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
4 December 1951, Santa Monica, California, USA
March 11, 2015
Frequent gun violence in quirky '90s Western.
February 03, 2007
Raimi's movie borrows heavily from classic spaghetti westerns, but Raimi has a style of his own, and plenty of it.
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.
September 02, 2005
Sharon Stone misses the mark on this one.
January 01, 2000
You get lots of clothes here, but no emperor.
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.
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.
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 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.
October 30, 2004
Stylish Raimi western is violent, unpredictable.
June 24, 2006
A deadpan black comedy, Sam Raimi's fast-paced movie looks and sounds like a Leone oater but more so.
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.
