Fresh
A deadpan black comedy, Sam Raimi's fast-paced movie looks and sounds like a Leone oater but more so.
Derek Adams, Time Out
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The Quick and the Dead
Overview
A mysterious woman comes to compete in a quick-draw elimination tournament, in a town taken over by a notorious gunman.
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62%
Tomatometer
Fresh
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.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Rotten
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.
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Rotten
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.
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
As preposterous as the plot was, there was never a line of Hackman dialogue that didn't sound as if he believed it. The same can't be said, alas, for Sharon Stone...
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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