
Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from America by an Australian rancher so he can shoot aborigines at a distance. Quigley takes exception to this and leaves. The rancher tries to kill him for refusing, and Quigley escapes into the brush with a woman he rescued from some of the rancher's men, and are helped by aborigines. Quigley returns the help, before going on to destroy all his enemies.... (Full plot summary below)
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Sharpshooter Matt Quigley is hired from America by an Australian rancher so he can shoot aborigines at a distance. Quigley takes exception to this and leaves. The rancher tries to kill him for refusing, and Quigley escapes into the brush with a woman he rescued from some of the rancher's men, and are helped by aborigines. Quigley returns the help, before going on to destroy all his enemies.
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| Washington PostRita KempleyX marks the G-spot perhaps, for this is an orgiastic comedy of terrors and errors. |
| EmpireDamon WiseAlmodovar consolidated his status as a challenging and bold filmmaker by forcing Americans to drop their zany preconceptions of him and see his world through his eyes. |
| Los Angeles TimesPeter RainerAnother failed attempt to make Tom Selleck a movie star, this is a handsomely mounted but vapid western that lumbers across the screen for two hours, providing little entertainment. |
| St. Louis Post-DispatchEllen FuttermanAussie director Wincer handles the action convincingly, and Rickman's splendidly snide villain is a real treat. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanTie Me Up! Tie Me Down! is seamlessly crafted yet too self-conscious to be much fun. |
| The DissolveKeith PhippsAbril and Banderas are both terrific as the lovers-to-be... Almodóvar makes it easy to root for them to get together and balance each other out, but that means getting past the situation that brought them together in the first place, and the tension makes the movie queasy even when it’s compelling. |
| The New York TimesVincent CanbyMr. Almodovar's comic invention runs out too soon, leaving the audience to giggle weakly in anticipation of the big laughs and disorienting shocks that never arrive. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonWhat's missing in Quigley Down Under is precisely what is missing in its star. Selleck is a skilled light comedian -- he's at his best delivering a wry put-down to a British officer -- and he handles John Hill's bantering dialogue deftly. But for all his burly authority, Selleck lacks dynamism on screen. There's no danger in him, nothing unresolved or mysterious. He's likable, but something of a lug. |
| Brag MagazineClint MorrisA strikingly-beautiful western with an A-grade cast |
| EmpireMark CooperThis film falls down in it's attempts to do everything at once, so that a potentially horrific scenario is often played out to comic effect. It doesn't quite work and the film manages to undermine itself. |