While it still promotes some of the old west myths, it's far more accurate than most westerns.

Rating: 8/10 (12 February 2020)

In movie westerns, there were shootouts all the time, Indian attacks and chaos. Well, this is true...in films. But in reality, the west was not so lawless and things like the shootout at the OK Corral were the exception rather than the rule. So, when you watch "Tombstone" understand that in many ways it is more historically accurate than most westerns but it still presents an image of western life that isn't really true....at least not for the average person living out west back in the day. So, when you watch the movie, just understand that it represents an exception...not the rule. And, while this might surprise you, the famed shootout wasn't even seen as anything that important when it happened...and it was only because of Wyatt Earp's publicizing it so much in the 1920s and 30s that we think it was some big to do today.
The film is a modern and more adult version of a western. There is a LOT of realistic blood and gore...which there would have been in shootouts (WHEN and IF they occurred). It's certainly NOT a film for kids and is one I recommend but only for adults who know what they're getting into...it's unrelentingly tough and violent. This is much unlike other versions of the story (such as "My Darling Clementine" and "Gunfight at the OK Corral")...and for added realism, Doc Holliday looks awful...which he should have looked like since he was dying from Tuberculosis. Overall, very unpleasant but very well made.