Amazon.com video review:
This Western has become a modest cult favorite since its
release in 1993, when the film was met with mixed reviews but the
performances of Kurt Russell (as Wyatt Earp) and especially Val
Kilmer, for his memorably eccentric performance as the dying
gunslinger Doc Holliday, garnered high praise. The movie opens with
Wyatt Earp trying to put his violent past behind him, living happily
in Tombstone with his brothers and the woman (Dana Delany) who puts
his soul at ease. But a murderous gang called the Cowboys has burst on
the scene, and Earp can't keep his gun belt off any longer. The plot
sounds routine, and in many ways it is, but Western buffs won't mind a
bit thanks to a fine cast and some well-handled action on the part of
Rambo director George P. Cosmatos, who has yet to make a better
film than this. --Jeff Shannon
Amazon.com video review:
This Western has become a modest cult favorite since its
release in 1993, when the film was met with mixed reviews but the
performances of Kurt Russell (as Wyatt Earp) and especially Val
Kilmer, for his memorably eccentric performance as the dying
gunslinger Doc Holliday, garnered high praise. The movie opens with
Wyatt Earp trying to put his violent past behind him, living happily
in Tombstone with his brothers and the woman (Dana Delany) who puts
his soul at ease. But a murderous gang called the Cowboys has burst on
the scene, and Earp can't keep his gun belt off any longer. The plot
sounds routine, and in many ways it is, but Western buffs won't mind a
bit thanks to a fine cast and some well-handled action on the part of
Rambo director George P. Cosmatos, who has yet to make a better
film than this. --Jeff Shannon
