The Quick and the Dead

Well, howdy partner, and welcome in to the review of Sam Raimi’s gloriously weird  western, The Quick and the Dead. Sharon Stone struts into town in a leather duster and an I'm Batman speaking voice, Leonardo DiCaprio is playing “Kid” before he was The Kid, Gene Hackman is Lex Luthor in a duster, and Russell Crowe is inexplicably a pacifist preacher with a deadly draw.

This movie is part spaghetti western, part comic-book splash page, and all Raimi—complete with crash zooms, Dutch angles, and a camera shot that literally goes through a bullet hole. We’ll talk about how Sharon Stone hand-picked her co-stars (and gave DiCaprio his big break), why the duels feel like Mortal Kombat fatalities, and how this flick deserves way more love than it got back in the day.