I can't believe that this film has an average rating. Poor Tom Selleck smiles grimly as he stars in this predictable plod through cliché, stereotype and mawkish sentimentality.
Laura San Giacommo's character is as 2-dimensional as the paper the script was written on. She tries to compensate for this by overacting wildly, which only makes her character less appealing. In the scene where Cora collapses in the outback, Quigley retrieves the cartridge belt that she was carrying for him then walks off, stops, looks pained and goes back to pick her up. I was willing Quigley to just carry on walking after he'd got his cartridge belt and leave the annoying shouty woman to the dingos.
Alan Rickman has the sole entertaining role in this movie, playing a thoroughly unpleasant rancher. Unfortunately, he's only on screen for about 15 minutes!
Everyone apart from Quigley gets a rough deal in this film. The Irish and Scottish ex-convicts are all mercenary scum, The English are all ruthless imperialists and the Aborigines are all little "Noble Savage" cut-outs.
By the way, I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure that a perfectly circular 3-inch grouping at 900 yards is impossible, whatever rifle you have in your hands. Trying to hit a bucket at about 300 yards is roughly the equivalent of trying to shoot the head off a match at 10 yards. I suppose that's possible if you have a modern sniper rifle with a telescopic sight and a bipod...
You should have ditched "Magnum" and gone for "Raiders of The Lost Ark", Tom.
Laura San Giacommo's character is as 2-dimensional as the paper the script was written on. She tries to compensate for this by overacting wildly, which only makes her character less appealing. In the scene where Cora collapses in the outback, Quigley retrieves the cartridge belt that she was carrying for him then walks off, stops, looks pained and goes back to pick her up. I was willing Quigley to just carry on walking after he'd got his cartridge belt and leave the annoying shouty woman to the dingos.
Alan Rickman has the sole entertaining role in this movie, playing a thoroughly unpleasant rancher. Unfortunately, he's only on screen for about 15 minutes!
Everyone apart from Quigley gets a rough deal in this film. The Irish and Scottish ex-convicts are all mercenary scum, The English are all ruthless imperialists and the Aborigines are all little "Noble Savage" cut-outs.
By the way, I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure that a perfectly circular 3-inch grouping at 900 yards is impossible, whatever rifle you have in your hands. Trying to hit a bucket at about 300 yards is roughly the equivalent of trying to shoot the head off a match at 10 yards. I suppose that's possible if you have a modern sniper rifle with a telescopic sight and a bipod...
You should have ditched "Magnum" and gone for "Raiders of The Lost Ark", Tom.