Tuesday, November 22, 2011

The Quick and the Dead (1995)

Western. A town's big boss promotes a contest made up of duels. One of the contestants is a woman who has a vengeance agenda.

The screenplay's surreal premise is interesting. This surreality is maximum in the duel between the contest's promoter and his bastard son. Perhaps if the film had been reduced to half its length I would have liked it better. Some of the subplots (e.g. the girl who is seduced by a "dirty old man") don't add to the film. Last but not least among the problems which bothered me, I will mention the elegant looks of the protagonist: to begin with, there is no chance that a gunfighter would wear her hair loose, because it could block her eyesight for a moment, and that could mean her death.

Rating: 40

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