Must See Movie...

Great Film overall

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

That would have been a more appropiate title for this garbage.Now I'm not a sexist and in these "me too" times, you gotta tread carefully. To prove that I can enjoy an actionmovie with a female lead, I love The Quick And The Dead with Sharon Stone in the lead. This movie does not work. Not because the women are doing a bad job. Well Mary Stuart Masterson and especially Andie McDowell are terrible. Madeleine Stove delivers a solid performance as always. And Drew Barrymore is just eyecandy and shows her very nice tits in two scenes.The women are not the problem here. It's the script. It cant decide wether or not it wants to be a comedy, a feminist movie or a serious western. So it's a little bit of everything, which is annoying. And the story is nonsensical and the women keep making bad decisions, so they get caught by bad men so that they can get themselves saved by the good man. Also funny how the women look good as does the two good men. But the bad men all look like people did back then., With rotten yellow teeth and bad skin. I guess, so we, the dumb audience can tell the badguys from the goodguys. It's like reading a Disney comic book, where the badguys always have stubbles and the goodguys are freshly shaven. There is not nearly enough action and what little there is is lame and boring. Which suggest a low budget. The movie is R-rated, but aside from Drews tits and a little blood, it might as well have been PG13. The badguy, who is a terrible actor as well as over the top evil. So when he is finally killed, with only one shot, it's dissapointing. Evewnthough he is not nearly menacing enough, to trly hate him. He should have been riddled with bullets. You cant set up a badguy like that and not give him a long painful death. But Im guessing ( not knowing for sure) that the goddamn MPAA made them reshoot several scenes, because it was too violent. Either that or the director was simply clueless, how to shoot a western. The badguys crew are impossible to tell apart. They're just there to be rapists and be killed in the end. The only two good men in the movie are push-overs and one of them dies for a woman that don't want him anyway. The other one falls for a clearly much older McDowell. Oh and The Pinkerton detectives, which was real, are also in this movie, but they never catch Madeliene Stowe and are evidently too stupid to catch anyone, so why they are in this movie, I dont know. One of them is played by Jim Beaver, known for his role as Bobby singer on Supernatural. I didn't even recognize him which proves how bad this movie is. I recommend avoding this crap and find the scenes with Drew toplesss. Theyre the only parts of the movie worth watching.

I wasn't going to write a review but I saw the featured review was a 10. What was that reviewer thinking? There are so many flaws in this movie it's ridiculous. First off, what are the chances that the hottest four hookers in the old west get together and form a gang? Not likely. Somehow they manage to obtain modern roping saddles. They shoot rifles from the hip rather than taking aim. They stand ready to fire in a hurry, but don't have the hammer on their revolvers cocked. They rack the lever on their rifles even though there is already a round in the chamber. (Great for dramatic effect.) Every time they draw a pistol, we hear a whishing sound. And apparently the director thinks throwing rifles from one person to another in the middle of a gun battle was pretty common in the old west, as he has the girls flipping them around like flipping hotcakes. Pretty girls, pretty scenery, bad movie.

Cody Zamora (Madeleine Stowe), Anita Crown (Mary Stuart Masterson), Eileen Spenser (Andie MacDowell), and Lilly Laronette (Drew Barrymore) are prostitutes in the small Colorado town of Echo City. Cody kills a particularly rough client beating on Anita who refuses to kill anybody after the death of her true love. She is about to be hung when the girls rescues her. They are pursued by Pinkerton detectives Graves and O'Brady hired by the widow. Anita has a homestead claim in Oregon that she wants to start a saw mill with. Cody has over $12k to make the start. When the Pinkertons catches up at the Texas bank, Cody's old partner Kid Jarrett (James Russo) shows up to rob the bank and he takes her money to lure Cody to him. Eileen is captured by the town and Cody gets beaten by Kid Jarrett rescued by Josh McCoy (Dermot Mulroney).This was a great opportunity for women to lead a western. It should be a lot more than what this movie actually turned out to be. The sets look cheap and the style looks weak. This needs a great director to push a gritty tough style. Director Jonathan Kaplan has fallen into TV show directing after some early big screen success and there is a good reason for that. His style isn't cinematic or grand enough for a big adventure movie. The visual style is lacking. The ladies are all terrific actresses. The story rambles on and on. The tone is all over the place. This is a mess. There is a bit of good action at the end, but it's too little too late.

....have more fun. Bad Girls is about four "soiled doves," Cody Zamora, (Madeline Stowe,) Anita Crown, (Mary Stuart Masterson,) Eileen Spenser, (Andie McDowell,) and Lily Laronette, (Drew Barrymore. Anita's abused by a client, and her friends promptly shoot him. Cody's almost lynched but they make good their escape, and meet up with Josh, a prospector on his way to Oregon to stake his claim. Meanwhile, the Pinkertons, in the form of detectives O'Brady, and Graves, are hired by Colonel Clayborne's widow to find them because she has a very low opinion of the law in the town. Cody, Anita, Eileen, and Lily, are in another town, where Cody tries to withdraw her money from the bank. Kid Jarret, an outlaw, and his gang, rob the bank, taking Cody's money, which totals over $12,000. Cody goes after Kid and finds his hideout. She meets Kid's father, who stole Josh's father's claim, and whom Josh wants did. Cody's beaten by Kid, and brought back to town. Will, a poor rancher, is deputized, by the town marshal, and is taken in by Eileen, who was left behind by Cody, Anita, and Lily, when she couldn't mount her horse. Lily's taken by Kid and held hostage. Kid plans to steal a shipment of Army rifles, and a Gatling gun. Anita, who's a widow, has a homesteading claim in Oregon, but can't make good on it because her husband's dead. Kid wants to have Lily as the gang's personal whore. Kid and his gang steal the shipment of Army rifles, and the Gatling gun, and Cody, Anita, and Eileen, steal the Army rifles and Gatling gun, from Kid and his gang. They also take Kid's father, whom they plan to trade for Lily. Josh kills Kid's father and they go to Kid's hideout to rescue Lily. Cody, Anita, and Eileen, rescue Lily and shoot up Kid's hideout. Kid's out of ammunition so Cody takes a bullet from her Winchester rifle, gives it to him, and tells him to shoot and die like a man. OUCH! THAT WAS COLD! I've always wanted to say this so here goes, Meanwhile, back at the ranch, Eileen helps Will pitch hay to his stock, and confesses to him that she's not from New Orleans. Her father was a dirt rancher from East Texas and she wanted to marry a rich man but all she ended up with was a broken heart. Cody gives Will some of her money so he can pay the mortgage on the ranch. Then Cody, Anita, and Lily, head for the Klondike. In Oklahoma, Graves asks a homesteader if he's seen her, and he says no. She's probably far away by now. This, as she and her two friends, are riding north. A good movie.