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Great Film overall

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The Quick and the DeadWomen have showdowns everyday but instead of pistols they shoot glares at each other.Unfortunately, the female in this western will have to use something a little less subtle.In Redemption for the quick draw competition, the Lady (Sharon Stone) attracts the attention of the corrupt organizer (Gene Hackman) and his participants: an imprisoned preacher (Russell Crowe), a kid (Leonardo DiCaprio) with something to prove and a hired gun (Keith David).As the ranks thin, she draws closer to her true goal: killing the man who forced her to shoot her father (Gary Sinise).A visually striking oater with rapid-fire pacing and colorful characters, director Sam Raimi brings his frenetic style to the usually static Wild West showdown with eye-popping results. This energy is even enough to make up for miscasting Stone in the lead.Incidentally, like golf, ladies got to fire at their dueling opponents from the women's tee.Green Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

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.

Every review I read about this film dissed it and every review I read was written by men! This was a film about a woman protagonist and hero. Of course men don't like it! I just read another review on IMDb by a GUY who said the plot wasn't original. I've never seen or heard anything similar to a story about a little girl who was given a chance to save her Marshall father, who was about to be lynched by Hackman and his crew, by shooting the rope to free him and instead killed him because she didn't know how to handle a gun!! Could any person imagine the guilt a person would carry around if that happened to them? Leonardo DiCaprio had just finished filming Titanic and Russell Crowe was hardly new to feature films. One of my favorite westerns of his was 3:10 to Yuma, but that's another story.Basically, I'm sorry you guys hate it when testosterone isn't what wins the day in a good western, but real history tells the story of many women gunfighters who were as good or better than any man: Cattle Annie, Calamity Jane and many more.I admire Sharon Stone for a good story told with realism of the period. I happen to be a hobby historian about the old west and in real life, the good guys weren't always men and even when they were, they didn't always win, and those popular history paints as heroes weren't as good as people think they were, such as the Earp's and Doc Holiday.Yes, there are thousands of western movies with plots that are similar but The Quick and the Dead has a plot unlike any other I've ever seen and while I haven't seen all of them, I have seen most.

This mildly atmospheric western does have some redeeming features. For a start there is the stunningly beautiful Sharon Stone. A heartless, snarling villain that you want shot dead from the moment the movie begins. A host of OTT characters who are foolish enough to go up against the said villain in a gun fight. The flawed "hero" who is a preacher with a shameful past. The usual grimy faced close ups and spaghetti Western music. No,,,,,,,,,,it's not a classic (it does not pretend to be) but there are far worse movies out there. Yes the plot is stolen from OUATITW. Yes the premise of a fight to the death competition is a little far fetched. However, I loved it. Ms Stone is pure eye candy and if this film were on this evening I'd watch again.