Dead for A Dollar

Name: Dead for A Dollar
Genre: Thriller, Western
Released: September 30, 2022
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 61
Cast: Benjamin Bratt, Brandon Scott, Christoph Waltz, Gabriela Alicia Ortega, Guy Burnet

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Quiver Distribution | Release Date: September 30, 2022 | R

Starring: Benjamin Bratt, Brandon Scott, Christoph Waltz, Gabriela Alicia Ortega, Guy Burnet, Hamish Linklater, Jackamoe Buzzell, Rachel Brosnahan, Scott Peat, Willem Dafoe

Summary: Veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund (Christoph Waltz) is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens (Willem Dafoe) – a sworn enemy he sent to prison years before. Max is on a mission to find and return Rachel (Rachel Brosnahan).

Director: Walter Hill

Genre(s): Thriller, Western

Rating: R

Runtime: 114 min

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A.O. Scott

Sep 29, 2022

It’s solidly and proudly a B picture, as the Boetticher dedication makes clear. But in an age of blockbuster bloat and streaming cynicism, a solid B movie — efficiently shot (by Lloyd Ahern II) and effectively acted (by everyone) is something of a miracle. Hill had a job to do. He did it. That’s worth something. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Glenn Kenny

Sep 6, 2022

This story is bound to lead to several showdowns at once, and the action climax is beautifully orchestrated by Hill: it’s suspenseful, jarring, and never descends to formal cheating of narrative cheapness to give the audience what it wants and deserves. Read full review

Lee Marshall

Sep 8, 2022

Dead for a Dollar is a revisionist western served up in a traditional twine-tied package. Read full review

Ben Croll

Sep 8, 2022

Dead for a Dollar is a proud heir to a longstanding lineage of low-budget westerns. Consider that a feature and a bug. Read full review

Sumner Forbes

Sep 30, 2022

While Dead for a Dollar may not make one toss out their copy of The Searchers, it’s still a refreshing change of pace seeing three excellent actors in an uncommon genre. When it comes to its originality, though, we’re left watching the tumbleweeds float on by. Read full review

Mark Keizer

Oct 4, 2022

Ultimately, Hill performs his duties like a man for hire in Dead For A Dollar, much like Max Borland is a man for hire down in Mexico. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Oct 2, 2022

A vintage Hill bit with a horse coming through glass doors and a couple of decent exchanges in an overall perfunctory big shootout finale arrive just in time to remind of us how great this filmmaker once was, and how sad it is that he has to hang up his spurs with Dead for a Dollar. Read full review

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SpecimenB

Oct 4, 2022

Spending the budget on heavy-hitting actors can't save this cliche western. I watched this because it had some of my favorite actors, but they can only do their best with the lackluster lines given them. Watching this really brings to light the importance of a good director and screenplay.

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Orukayu

Jan 22, 2023

Western movie made in 2022. When you look at the poster of the movie and see the names of Willem Dafoe and Christoph Waltz, one wants to watch it without hesitation. Because the ratings are high. For this reason, expectations are also rising. Here, the movie is far from meeting thatWestern movie made in 2022. When you look at the poster of the movie and see the names of Willem Dafoe and Christoph Waltz, one wants to watch it without hesitation. Because the ratings are high. For this reason, expectations are also rising. Here, the movie is far from meeting that expectation.

The politically powerful husband of the woman who was kidnapped and asked for a ransom enlists a bounty hunter to find her. The bounty hunter has a rival as famous as himself.

The subject is in the hands of a good director and it could have been much better with these master actors. The music of the movie was good.

There are scenes of sexuality and nudity in the movie.… Expand

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Mauro_Lanari

Apr 16, 2023

(Mauro Lanari)
B-movie that Hill tries to liven up with an exuberant editing and rejuvenating the classicism of his western history with attention to the feminine and racial. Clumsy and not enthralling.

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Luke08

Jan 21, 2023

Another (stunningly audacious) production part of tribal project to rewrite history and turn us all into a single, grey matter, all with African-American cowboys and interracial adultery in New Mexico in the 1800's! No wonder is a "critics" favorite.

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