Attractive and enjoyable western with good performance by the protagonist trio : Tom Selleck , Laura San Giacomo and Alan Rickman . Here Tom Selleck plays Matthew Quigley , an expert cowboy and sharpshooter from America . Quigley's weapon of choice is a 1874 Sharps Buffalo Rifle that's also main starring in the movie . Decent Western in which the fine protagonist Tom Selleck takes short time to decide to end up in the arms with a merciless enemy : Alan Rickman as the landowner heavy . As Quigley Down answers enemies with a special talent in long distance shooting with four words: "M. Quigley 900 yards" . When he arrives in Australia, he is met by employees of the man who contracted him , Elliot Marston (Alan Rickman). Quigley attemps to prevent the men from forcing "Crazy Cora" (Laura San Giacomo) onto their wagon and she continually calls Quigley "Roy", much to his resentment . Later on , Quigley beats the men until they learn that Quigley is the individual they were sent to pick up. Quigley is eventually taken to Marston's Station in the Western Australian outback . To his horror he discovers that he has been hired to kill aborigens , as Quigley leaves him , and the rancher attempts to kill him for refusing, and Quigley gets away into the brush. Quigley returns a previous help, before going on to eliminate enemies. The West was never this far west......in a place it's never been before. There's a price on his head. A girl on his mind. And a twinkle in his eye.
A fine , well plotted Western about an experimented cowboy : Tom Selleck and a lonely mistress : Laura San Giacomo . Simon Wincer's slick direction and predictable action is somewhat redeemed by the terrific chemistry between Selleck as a tough cowboy with a keen eye by wielding a specially modified rifle with which he can shoot accurately at extraordinary distances and San Giacomo as the fierce , independient Crazy Cora , as well as the ordinary agreeable theatrics from the early deceased Alan Rickman . This Quigley Down Under (1990) contains strong performances augmented by blazing guns , and adequate writing . Nevertheless , it doesn't have much interest at times , neither intensity enough , though Tom Selleck captures his role pretty well as two-fisted sharpshooter Matt Quigley hired from Wyoming by an Australian rancher paying a very high price . He's well accopmpanied by a decent and mostly Australian support cast , such as : Chris Haywood , Jerome Ehlers , Ben Mendelsohn , William Zappa, Roger ward and Tony Bonner .
It displays a rousing and thrilling musical score by Basil Poledouris . Equally , colorful and evocative cinematography by David Eggby , showing splendidly the Down Under landscapes . The Emmy Award-winning director of "Lonesome Dove" puts the classic Western back where it was meant to be , on the big screen . Sensational directorial by the notorious filmmaker Simon Wincer , a Western expert , as he emigrated Hollywood from Australia and subsequently directed to Tom Selleck in ¨Monte Walsh¨ , ¨Crossfire trail¨ and ¨Quigley Down Under¨ to Paul Hogan in ¨Relampago Jack¨ and ¨Cocodrile Dundee in L. A.¨ and usually directs episodes for TV mini-series, such as ¨Into the West¨, ¨The Ponderosa¨ , ¨Lonesome Dove¨ and ¨The adventures of young Indiana Jones¨ , among others . Rating : good for the sensitive direction and proficient film-making ; the result is a sort of pacifist-aggressive Western adventure . Worthwhile watching . The pic will appeal to Tom Selleck fans .
A fine , well plotted Western about an experimented cowboy : Tom Selleck and a lonely mistress : Laura San Giacomo . Simon Wincer's slick direction and predictable action is somewhat redeemed by the terrific chemistry between Selleck as a tough cowboy with a keen eye by wielding a specially modified rifle with which he can shoot accurately at extraordinary distances and San Giacomo as the fierce , independient Crazy Cora , as well as the ordinary agreeable theatrics from the early deceased Alan Rickman . This Quigley Down Under (1990) contains strong performances augmented by blazing guns , and adequate writing . Nevertheless , it doesn't have much interest at times , neither intensity enough , though Tom Selleck captures his role pretty well as two-fisted sharpshooter Matt Quigley hired from Wyoming by an Australian rancher paying a very high price . He's well accopmpanied by a decent and mostly Australian support cast , such as : Chris Haywood , Jerome Ehlers , Ben Mendelsohn , William Zappa, Roger ward and Tony Bonner .
It displays a rousing and thrilling musical score by Basil Poledouris . Equally , colorful and evocative cinematography by David Eggby , showing splendidly the Down Under landscapes . The Emmy Award-winning director of "Lonesome Dove" puts the classic Western back where it was meant to be , on the big screen . Sensational directorial by the notorious filmmaker Simon Wincer , a Western expert , as he emigrated Hollywood from Australia and subsequently directed to Tom Selleck in ¨Monte Walsh¨ , ¨Crossfire trail¨ and ¨Quigley Down Under¨ to Paul Hogan in ¨Relampago Jack¨ and ¨Cocodrile Dundee in L. A.¨ and usually directs episodes for TV mini-series, such as ¨Into the West¨, ¨The Ponderosa¨ , ¨Lonesome Dove¨ and ¨The adventures of young Indiana Jones¨ , among others . Rating : good for the sensitive direction and proficient film-making ; the result is a sort of pacifist-aggressive Western adventure . Worthwhile watching . The pic will appeal to Tom Selleck fans .