Product Description

Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Gary Sinise, Leonardo DiCaprio. In this fresh look at the Wild West, a revenge-seeking female gunslinger enters a quick-draw contest. 1995/color/105 min/R.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20707 in DVD
• Brand: STONE,SHARON
• Released on: 2009-09-08
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, French
• Dubbed in: French
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 107 minutes

Amazon.com essential video
Director Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead) tries gamely to recapture the exotic mysteries of spaghetti Westerns in this stylish but empty film, which stars Sharon Stone as a stranger who comes to the town of Redemption in time for an annual shooting contest. Her real motivations for being there are the stuff that might have found their way into a film by Sergio Leone--in fact, much of this film is a pastiche of Leone's greatest hits, including A Fistful of Dollars and Once upon a Time in America--but one can't quite believe Stone in the role. Gene Hackman gives a predictably solid performance as the town tyrant, and Leonardo DiCaprio is good as a lucky young gunslinger who gets to kiss the heroine. But not even the cast can help this failed project. Raimi brings a lot of razzle-dazzle to his camera work, but it doesn't make the film any more substantial. --Tom Keogh

From The New Yorker
A flashy, vacuous, and enjoyable helping of Old West hokum written by Simon Moore and directed by Sam Raimi. In the dead-end town of Redemption, nobody does anything much except pick fights and pay taxes to the local boss, a nasty piece of work named Herod (Gene Hackman). In rides the taciturn challenger, played by Sharon Stone. As in "The Specialist,'' she has a childhood horror to erase, which seems unnecessary-why do screenwriters think that Stone needs an excuse to make life hell for men? The film has no real suspense (it's pretty obvious who is set to win), but it goes ahead and whips up the nervous tension anyhow. The shock closeups and camera pans-fast as a speeding bullet, that kind of thing-are cheerfully over the top, though it's sad that the most venerable of movie genres has dwindled into a hatful of Sergio Leone rip-offs. With Leonardo DiCaprio, whose grin does a lot for the picture's cocky mood. -Anthony Lane
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker