Tombstone

Rating: 7/10 (18 January 2007)

Months before the Kevin Costner version was released, this Wyatt Earp film came out, and I think is almost better. Basically Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell) has come back from cleaning up Dodge City, and now comes to the town of Tombstone, Arizona, and wishes to get rich in obscurity. He meets his brothers Virgil (Sam Elliott) and Morgan Earp (Bill Paxton) while there, as well as his old friend, Doc Holliday (a great Val Kilmer). They encounter a gang called The Cowboys (how original) who are causing chaos with random violent acts, and eventually it leads up to shoot ups at the OK Corral. Also starring Powers Boothe as Curly Bill Brocious, The Terminator's Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo and Charlton Heston as Henry Hooker. Very good!