The Quick and the Dead
The story of 'The Quick and the Dead' revolves around a gunslinger woman, Ellen, who does her best to avenge from father's murderer, Herod, who is the responsible for organizing a quick-draw tournament. She decides to join a deadly fight competition in order to kill Herod and take the revenge.
19 July 1924, Miami, Florida, USA
17 March 1955, Blue Island, Illinois, USA
20 January 1979, Austin, Texas, USA
17 March 1955, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
4 June 1956, Harlem, New York City, New York, USA
14 December 1945, Los Angeles, California, USA
22 June 1958, Birmingham, Michigan, USA
11 November 1974, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 May 1942, New York City, New York, USA
7 August 1942, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
24 December 1957, Walnut Lake, Michigan, USA
30 January 1930, San Bernardino, California, USA
25 July 1914, Los Angeles, California, USA
31 August 1958, Detroit, Michigan, USA
24 March 1977, San Clemente, California, USA
5 May 1940, New York City, New York, USA
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.
September 02, 2005
Sharon Stone misses the mark on this one.
October 30, 2004
Stylish Raimi western is violent, unpredictable.
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.
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.
March 11, 2015
Frequent gun violence in quirky '90s Western.
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.
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.
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.
June 24, 2006
A deadpan black comedy, Sam Raimi's fast-paced movie looks and sounds like a Leone oater but more so.
