Quigley Down Under | Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo

Quigley Down Under | Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo | Excellent and very entertaining

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Quigley Down Under

	Quigley Down Under Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo MGM (Video & DVD), 2001 average customer review:based on 102 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Westerns Are Back!!

John Wayne has been gone for many years now, and the era of westerns seems to have passed us by. However, Tom Selleck does a wonderful job of playing a cowboy embodying the classic trademarks of a John Wayne film. It is a classic tale of the good guys vs. the bad guys!! I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good western!

Excellent and very entertaining

My husband & I watch this frequently. My husband enjoys the accuracy of the filming of period details. Worth buying.

So Good Even My Aussie Friend Liked It!

My friend in Australia and I occasionally exchange movies. She is a hard one to find something to her taste and is very picky, but she did enjoy this movie. Granted she did find fault, heh heh -- like when he is dragged behind a horse she said he would have been shredded, and the aboriginal turnout at the end would have taken the entire indiginous population of Australia together at once! (Me? I found that part touching!) Other than that though, she found it entertaining, so that must mean she thought the story did no damage to either country's image.

Now if I can just teach her to suspend disbelief and enjoy the story... LOL

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Loved this movie. I watch it over and over. I gave this one as an Xmas gift.

Half pretty good - Half pretty bad

This movie suggests what sort of career Tom Selleck might have had if Westerns were in vogue. I prefer this gruff and grizzled persona. And he seemed to put his heart into it.

It helped that this movie had a superb director of horse operas, Simon Wincer, the Aussi director of PHAR LAP, THE LIGHTHORSEMEN (hopefully, there'll be a Region 1 DVDs available soon), and LONESOME DOVE. (I am particularly fond of his work in THE PHANTOM.)

There's a good supporting cast from Australia along with Britisher Alan Rickman who, as usual, kept stealing scenes as a rich rancher villain. Laura San Giacomo is a fine actress but she has an unfortunate role as a crazed American woman that joins the hero. Her role undermines the movie, taking away the "coolness" required of Westerns, probably becuz Selleck, as an actor, just can't compete with Laura.

But worse, there's a red gash across the plot of the movie called "hypocrisy". What does a white American have to teach white Australians about justice in the treatment of natives? Especially when the American situation is dismissed by Tom's character with one vague statement about the Indians not wanting to be forced from their lands. This is a situation that cries for clarification. But none is offered. Instead, along comes one of the most embarrassing plot turns political correctness has ever provoked: Laura San Giacomo's character finds and clings to an orphaned aboriginal infant as if it were her lost child.

I don't know if the Australian aboriginal people were that helpless -- where they need a fair-minded white man to rescue them. I know I don't like dark people depicted as helpless until a white person rescues them.

What's good about this movie -- Simon's direction, Tom's persona, Alan Rickman's villainy, the gunfights -- is dynamic and fun. What's bad about this film -- the crazed lady, the hypocrisy and the political correctness -- is abysmal.

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