Day 74 and I watched The Quick and the Dead. The Quick and the Dead is pretty much a collection of fast draw duels in the old west. There's also this lady played by Sharon Stone who had her father killed when she was little and she's out for revenge. For the most part she plays a hard case fairly well. There's not a whole lot of meaning to the story. There's a dueling contest in this town and most of the contestants have a personality and are interesting in some way. The duels are pretty suspenseful. There's some odd directing or camera work going on at times, especially during the first duel when the camera is zooming in like crazy on every single thing going on. Leonardo DiCaprio is in here, and young and he plays a hot shot little guy who thinks he's the best there is. There's Russel Crowe who plays a preacher who has a past of violence and the town mayor keeps pushing him to pick up the gun again. Gene Hackman plays the meanie of a town mayor. Everyone does pretty well and this is the old west so the setting is cool by default. This is a pretty good movie and I felt it may have ran on 10 or 20 minutes too long but I wasn't bored.
This gets 3.5 decks of aces out of 5
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