The Quick and the Dead

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Buy The Quick and the Dead. Herod is the undisputed ruler of redemption a haven for miscreants of every type and the fastest killer in the west. On one day a mysterious young woman rides into town a six-shooter strapped to her hip and revenge burning in her heart. Shes come to kill herod but she finds that she is paralyzed by her past. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/23/2006 Starring: Sharon Stone Leonardo Di Caprio Run time: 105 minutes Rating: R Director: Sam Raimi

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• ISBN13: 9780767817714
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Director Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead) tries gamely to recapture the exotic mysteries of spaghetti Westerns in this stylish but empty film, which stars Sharon Stone as a stranger who comes to the town of Redemption in time for an annual shooting contest. Her real motivations for being there are the stuff that might have found their way into a film by Sergio Leone--in fact, much of this film is a pastiche of Leone's greatest hits, including A Fistful of Dollars and Once upon a Time in America--but one can't quite believe Stone in the role. Gene Hackman gives a predictably solid performance as the town tyrant, and Leonardo DiCaprio is good as a lucky young gunslinger who gets to kiss the heroine. But not even the cast can help this failed project. Raimi brings a lot of razzle-dazzle to his camera work, but it doesn't make the film any more substantial. --Tom Keogh





The Quick and the Dead Review


THE QUICK AND THE DEAD isn't quite the film critic's wet dream and, yep, it is western fluff and rife with cliches, but director Sam Raimi keeps things interesting with his trademark frenetic camera work and screwy pans and inventive points of perspective. Meanwhile, Gene Hackman, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Russell Crowe maintain your attention when they're on the screen.

In a bit of gender twisting, Sharon Stone plays the straight-shooting lead and, no, we're not used to seeing Sharon Stone other than in sexy provocative roles, and yet this is a diverting change of pace for her, even if her wafer-thin role doesn't give her much to work with. A mysterious female protagonist in a Wild West shoot-'em-up and an evocation of mythic archetypes straight out of the Spaghetti western, I can dig it. This flick is one of my top guilty pleasures in this genre.

I liked it better when Sharon Stone's stranger was just known as "the Lady," so evocative of "the Man with No Name." And then someone lets slip that her character's name is actually Ellen, and a sliver of that mythical aura is suddenly shaved off. The Lady - or "Ellen" - rides into the dusty town of Redemption, the final destination of her vengeance trail. She arrives in time for the annual quick draw competition, the prize money of which is 3,000. Shifty pistoleros throw their name on the tote board, and each one touts an attitude. The Lady sees this event as her chance to place a killing bullet into John Herod (a bristling Hackman), the prairie town despot.

The storyline is hollow and unfolds by the numbers, so instead relish the bigger-than-life characters and the peppering of cool moments. Several actors turn in flashy, memorable performances. A cocky DiCaprio is endearing as the fast-as-lightning Kid ("I'm worth ,000 in four states"). Gene Hackman predictably chews up scenery as the despicable John Herod, and what he does to Lance Henriksen is sort of a repeat performance of his treatment of Richard Harris in UNFORGIVEN. But my favorite character is probably Russell Crowe's reluctant gunslinging preacher (he's kept chained up when not engaged in gun battles).

That Sam Raimi directs with manic energy is like saying that John Wayne walked kinda funny or that Clint Eastwood likes to squint some. Well, of course. And if Raimi falls short of what Sergio Leone brought to the screen, well, hell, I'd like to have seen Leone try to direct the Evil Dead movies with as much quirky panache - although, okay, fine, Leone would probably more than hold his own. But different strokes...

As for our heroine, Sharon Stone isn't required to be a great actress here (some would say "As opposed to when? SLIVER?"). She only has to demonstrate an understated flair, that bit of quiet swagger. And she has to look good dealing in lead, smoking that cigarillo, and walking with a purpose in that duster of hers. But Sharon Stone always looks good anyway, whether her choice of weapon is a pistol or an ice pick. And she gets the last word in right before she rides off into the horizon. "Law's come back to town," she tersely remarks, and then she's gone, having settled her score at last. You can buy Cheap The Quick and the Dead online fast and easy, Shop Today!.

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