This could have been something but the terrible casting and acting of Sharon Stone, the cringey cliched script and some comic book camera work and editing really bring it down. Gene Hackman does his turn as Gene Hackman, chewing up every scene and enjoying himself with an attitude that really found form later in THE UNFORGIVEN. Russell Crowe's first Hollywood film and you can see the makings of a fine leading man. Leonard DiCaprio, 21yrs old in this and looking 15, gives great support. But between those trying to genuinely act and Stone and the direction and script this falls dreadfully flat. It's never sure whether it wants to go full cartoonish or try and be serious.
Review of The Quick and the Dead
