Christina Reviews *The Quick and the Dead*

      A stranger rides into town right before the yearly Quick Draw contest.  But this is no ordinary stranger.  This stranger is a lady.  She's cold.  She's heartless.  She's fast.  And she's got a vendetta against the town sheriff.   I liked the way her secret is slowly revealed in striptease fashion, through a progression of flashbacks.  That's the way flashbacks should be used in film. 

      I first saw this movie when I was 15.  I was nearing the end of my Leonardo DiCaprio obsession.  After watching The Quick and the Dead, I was instantly enamored with Sharon Stone.  I am not gay.  But at 15/16, I would have *gone* gay for Sharon Stone.

      I guess The Quick and the Dead would be considered a send up of the Spaghetti Western.  It's not really all that funny, but it is quite tongue in cheek.  There's a scene where a man is shot in the head and you can see light shining through the bullet hole.  It's stuff like that which make this movie truly surreal.

       Leonardo DiCaprio was OK.  Russell Crowe was decent.   Gene Hackman was his usual bad self.  And Sharon Stone...

       Well, let's just leave it at that.

       Five stars