Dead for a Dollar (2022)
Genre: Western / Thriller
Duration: 107 minuten
Alternative title: Hung, Drawn and Quartered
Country:
Canada / United States
Directed by: Walter Hill
Stars: Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe and Rachel Brosnahan
IMDb score:
5,4 (7.768)
Releasedate: 30 September 2022
Dead for a Dollar plot
"Vengeance for the right price."
In New Mexico in 1897, famed bounty hunter Max Borlund is tasked with tracking down Rachel Price. She is married to the successful businessman Nathan Price and is said to have been kidnapped by the African-American Elijah Jones. During his journey, Max encounters his nemesis and professional gambler Joe Cribbens, a man for whom Max was responsible for his arrest years ago.
Actors and actresses
Max Borlund
Joe Cribbens
Rachel Kidd
Martin Kidd
Tiberio Vargas
English Bill
Elijah Jones
Jack Tyree
Sergeant Poe
Esteban Romero
Reviews & comments
mrklm
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- 11629 messages
- 10041 votes
Although this western is dedicated to genre specialist Budd Boetticher (The Cimarron Kid, The Man from the Alamo, The Tall T), despite key roles for Dafoe and Waltz, this has become a rather dull, routine film. Bounty hunter Max Borlund [Christoph Waltz] is hired by Martin Kidd [Hamish Linklater] to rescue his wife Rachel [Rachel Brosnahan] from Elijah Jones [Brandon Scott], a deserter who allegedly kidnapped her and fled to Mexico. There, Max has to deal with corrupt police, with landowner Tiberio Vargas [Benjamin Bratt] and with Joe Cribbens [Willem Dafoe], a sniper who was nabbed by Max five years ago and has just served his prison term. The plot would have been right up Boetticher's hand and would certainly have produced a more entertaining end result.
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filmkul
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- 2513 messages
- 2273 votes
Pretty average western. The story is not very complicated. The effect is simple but solid. The film has few surprises and Hill walks the familiar paths, but does so skillfully. The whole atmosphere is good, including appropriate soundtrack. Drama and actions alternate in time so that the film never gets boring. The acting is fine and the chemistry between the main characters is good. Simple but nothing special. 3.0
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klara
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- 814 messages
- 20367 votes
Western starring Christoph Waltz and Willem Dafoe.
There appears to be divergent interests of various people, with as
most interesting that of professional gambler Dafoe with a bone to pick
at bounty hunter Waltz. Both are followed alternately with two in the end
confrontations, the last of which at the end of the film.
So the director Walter Hill actually does it with two storylines that ultimately
inevitably come together. Along the way at a fairly slow pace but the
attention regularly stimulated by certain scenes including the 'whip duel', and
the roles are also well performed, although I found both Dafoe and Waltz less so
convincing than I had hoped.
I couldn't see a real cowboy, especially in Dafoe, although he had one
again that appearance as usual from him.
At the end, the film is still quite loose, which is certainly not weaned from it
some brutality and hardness at times.
A solid western from the old hand Hill that in itself comes across as quite average, but
nevertheless has enough to offer for the western enthusiast.
What struck me, by the way, was almost always a rather faded, faded lighting
I was not so happy then. On purpose? Then the target with it is me
completely missed.
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