Quigley Down Under: Sharpshooters, Aborigines, and Maybe a Little Too Much Melodrama?

Okay, so I just finished watching Quigley Down Under. I remember seeing bits and pieces of this one as a kid, flipping channels late at night. Tom Selleck with a ridiculously long rifle just BLASTING away... good times. But watching it now, all the way through? It's... something. I mean, the scenery is gorgeous, obviously. Australia, right? Can't really mess that up. And Selleck's mustache is, as always, a force of nature. But man, some of the plot points felt kinda... clunky? Especially the whole Cora storyline with Laura San Giacomo. Like, I get she's got trauma, but did we REALLY need that prolonged sequence of her just screaming and clutching her baby doll? It felt a little over the top, even for a 90s Western. And can we talk about Alan Rickman as Marston? He's deliciously evil, of course, but it's almost TOO easy of a villain, you know? Like, there's no subtlety there. Is that just me? Anyway, overall I enjoyed it as dumb fun, but I kept wondering... did anyone else find the pacing weird? Like, we get all this slow burn build-up with Quigley showing off his shooting skills, and then BAM, suddenly he's saving aborigines and fighting a whole army. It felt like two different movies stitched together. What did you guys think of that ambush scene in the rain? Was it just me or were the Aborigines' roles a bit underwritten? I'm not knocking the general plot (I'm a sucker for "good guy stands up to injustice") but I feel like it has some serious holes that bring it down from "good" to just "okay." Still, that Sharps rifle is a beauty.