The Quick and the Undead

2006 "In this town, dead ain't enough"
2.8| 1h30m| R| en
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The movie takes place in the present, but in this universe, a plague has broken out and the infected have been transformed into zombies. No explanation is provided for the source of the plague, nor is it explained how the original victims were infected, since by the time the narrative begins the infection spreads by bite. Nevertheless, the action starts 80 years after the initial outbreak. The western United States has devolved into a disconnected series of ghost towns overrun by zombies, and the government is awarding bounties in exchange for the pinkies of the undead.

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Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
Cassandra Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
Ghostpilot I feel sorry for this movie, it only got a measly 2.7 in average. A fate that I do not think it deserves. Many of the posts about this movie has been way to harsh in judging it according to me. Sure it is a B-movie, but what do you expect from a low budget zombie movie? I think this movie has elements that could have been done better with a little more budget in the special FX department. BUT it has one thing that many other zombie movies lack, and that is consistency.The world they presented to us seemed solid and plausible in the light of the facts stated in the beginning of the movie. The plot stayed inside its own boundaries throughout the entire length of the movie. Admirable for a movie of this kind. Not the best zombie movie I have ever seen, but far from the worst. I am proud to award this movie with a vote that is more than twice of its current average. That should bump up the stats a little.
skateboardsktr9 I just finished watching The Quick and the Undead, and loved it. I love westerns and zombie films, and this is a pretty good mixture of both. It's a modern western, but it still works. Not the highest budgeted movie, but neither were many of the great ones.It had a good amount of gore in it, a cool mixture of weapons, and the main character had an awesome outfit. It wasn't a comedy by far, but definitely had humorous moments, including a small shout-out to the original Day of the Dead. Some of the shots were similar to other movies too.A couple things could've made this movie better though, including better acting and better cinematography. Most of the characters, especially the main character, delivered very stale lines and many of the scenes held onto one shot for a bit too long.Those things aren't enough to make the movie unwatchable though, it was good enough in other areas to make up for it.
exchronos You've probably read a lot of bad reviews of this movie, and so did I. Yet you can't really appreciate this film until you've watched it, and even then it takes somebody who really understands it to really appreciate its cinematic value. Clint Glenn pulls off possibly the toughest act any action actor could attempt, and that is the blending of Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name character with that of Kurt Russell's cult iconic Snake Plissken character from "Escape From New York". Never before has the two styles of both iconic cinema loner legends come to a blend of cinematic brilliance and perfection. Imagine a zombie film shot like a Sergio Leone western yet with post-apocalyptic grit of John Carpenter's "Escape" movies. You no longer have to imagine because that film is "The Quick And The Undead". Clint Glenn's character also embodies a trait that few horror icons have had in the past-the immunity to infection that lead Vincent Price to be the last man on Earth, that made Charlton Heston the Omega Man, and finally got Will Smith killed in a movie...and about time! Although one must admit that the character relations could've been a bit more flushed out, as in the hero's past relations to the villain and the lady on the villain's team, and a better explanation on the DVD cover that the outbreak did not happen 85 years ago in the old west, but that the story happens 85 years into our future-which one can realize by comprehending the opening title sequence which effectively carries back story exposition which most people probably didn't pay attention to. Now another big whopper of surprise-the story brings the conflict back to being man versus man as opposed to the now repetitive man versus zombie meaningless action bonanza of mindless gore. In the tradition of the original "Dead" trilogy, man is still the ultimate evil while the zombies are the plot device to real human drama. As in the Dollars Trilogy (Man With No Name Trilogy for those who don't know its other name) the power and corruption of human society by greed plays a pivotal part in the story and its surprising and satisfying ending. If you don't like to think while watching a zombie film, if you become as brain dead as the zombies portrayed on the screen, then this may not be the best film for you to watch...just keep watching the endless modernized remakes of the original "Night Of The Living Dead" that big movie studios keep cranking out year after year after year. Yet if you want a film that's mentally engaging, shot in a superb homage style of great filmmakers of better film days past, and are ready to take a zombie hunting journey with a lone hero created by his surroundings only to master what surrounds him...then this is a zombie film for you, and is vastly the best independent zombie film since George A. Romero's original independent film masterpiece "Night Of The Living Dead".Sincerely, Exchronos
PDNickz The Quick and the Undead is, finally, the first movie to actually render its own storyline null and void. It is, essentially, one gigantic plot hole.Aside from that, the acting was quite bad, character motivations nonexistent or unbelievable and there wasn't a single character worth hanging our hat on. The most interesting cast member (who had great potential to be a dark horse protagonist) got snuffed halfway through the proceedings.What the Quick and the Undead DOES serve as is an excellent example of how to do good color-timing. It looked excellent, when you take into account budget considerations.Unfortunately, it plays out like a guy got his hands on a hundred grand and watched a few westerns (most notably The Good, The Bad and The Ugly) and then just threw a bunch of elements haphazardly into a movie... "you know, they have movies where characters do THIS! Does it fit here? No, but who cares! They do it in other movies so I should do it here!" Maybe a good view for burgeoning cinematographers and colorists (first-year film-schoolers). Otherwise, a must-miss.