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- 2022
- R
- Quiver Distribution
- 1 h 47 m
- 2022
- R
- Quiver Distribution
- 1 h 47 m
Summary Veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund (Christoph Waltz) is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens (Willem Dafoe) – a sworn enemy he sent to prison years before. Max is on a mission to find and return Rachel (Rachel Brosnahan).
Directed By: Walter Hill
Written By: Matt Harris
- 2022
- R
- Quiver Distribution
- 1 h 47 m
- 2022
- R
- Quiver Distribution
- 1 h 47 m
Dead for A Dollar
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Summary Veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund (Christoph Waltz) is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens (Willem Dafoe) – a sworn enemy he sent to prison years before. Max is on a mission to find and return Rachel (Rachel Brosnahan).
Directed By: Walter Hill
Written By: Matt Harris
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
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53% Positive
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41% Mixed
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6% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
61
53% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
41% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
6% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
It’s solidly and proudly a B picture, as the Boetticher dedication makes clear. But in an age of blockbuster bloat and streaming cynicism, a solid B movie — efficiently shot (by Lloyd Ahern II) and effectively acted (by everyone) is something of a miracle. Hill had a job to do. He did it. That’s worth something.
This is not an epic; nor is it meant to be. It’s a snappy story about a bunch of violent men — and one particular woman, anxious to get clear of them.
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(Mauro Lanari)
B-movie that Hill tries to liven up with an exuberant editing and rejuvenating the classicism of his western history with attention to the feminine and racial. Clumsy and not enthralling.
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Western movie made in 2022. When you look at the poster of the movie and see the names of Willem Dafoe and Christoph Waltz, one wants to watch it without hesitation. Because the ratings are high. For this reason, expectations are also rising. Here, the movie is far from meeting that expectation.
The politically powerful husband of the woman who was kidnapped and asked for a ransom enlists a bounty hunter to find her. The bounty hunter has a rival as famous as himself.
The subject is in the hands **** director and it could have been much better with these master actors. The music of the movie was good.
There are scenes of sexuality and nudity in the movie.
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Although Hill certainly puts in a few sly tips of the hat to canonical and cult favorites and is clearly enjoying exploiting the audience’s expectations of the genre, Dead for a Dollar isn’t an empty nostalgia exercise. Nor is it a revisionist postmodern deconstruction. It’s somewhere between the two, built on a narrative architecture as classical in its vernacular as Doric columns on a bank, but with details that will surely remind audiences of the future that it was made in the 2020s.
Dead for a Dollar is a proud heir to a longstanding lineage of low-budget westerns. Consider that a feature and a bug.
Dead for a Dollar provides a decently intriguing yarn within the framework of the Western that burrows a few inches below the surface. No one can say Hill didn’t hold up his end of the deal, which may be all that matters to him in the end.
Hill wants to “do justice” to each of these people, but the result is that Dead for a Dollar doesn’t have a dramatic core. It has actors we like to watch, doing what they do well (like Waltz playing a civilized badass), but it isn’t structured so that any of their fates gets a rise out of us.
A vintage Hill bit with a horse coming through glass doors and a couple of decent exchanges in an overall perfunctory big shootout finale arrive just in time to remind of us how great this filmmaker once was, and how sad it is that he has to hang up his spurs with Dead for a Dollar.
Spending the budget on heavy-hitting actors can't save this cliche western. I watched this because it had some of my favorite actors, but they can only do their best with the lackluster lines given them. Watching this really brings to light the importance **** director and screenplay.
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Production Company
Chaos, a Film Company,
Polaris Pictures
Release Date Sep 30, 2022
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating R
Tagline Vengeance for the right price
Awards
Western Heritage Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA)
• 1 Nomination
