Description: A female gunslinger enters a quick-draw contest to avenge the death of her sheriff father. Fresh look at the Old West with action and humor.
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
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02/13/2001 @ 12:00 AM
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
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01/01/2000 @ 12:00 AM
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
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. James Berardinelli,ReelViews
Although Stone may be pleasing to some eyes, she's pretty small in the saddle here -- just an innocuous gender twist on the reluctant cowboy hero. And her story of hellbent revenge is about as compelling as a 30-second fragrance commercial. Desson Thomson,Washington Post