good movie, though it has it's faults

Rating: Null/10 (25 January 2001)

I like this movie, and I also bought it soon after watching it for the first time. It's a good western yarn with a lot of great performances. Val Kilmer's performance as Doc Holliday in this movie will be remembered by anybody, even if you hated the rest of the movie. Kurt Russell and Sam Elliot do pretty good jobs playing their characters as well.(well, Sam Elliot just has to do what he normally does and he seems like pretty good redneck.. hehe :-)
*slight scene spoilers follow*
But as much as I like this movie, it seems to lose some momentum after the train station scene. I think the action was intended to pick up here, but it seems the whole mood of the movie is kind of derailed instead. Those horse-chasing shots at the end with the heroes blasting their guns off just don't work for me. I would much rather have seen more ambush/dig-in-and-shoot-it-out scenes than all those generic chases. I realize gun-fights are never as glamorous as they make them in movies, so why not have a sloppy, ugly, lucky to make it out kind of scene. (I guess the scene where Curly Bill gets whacked is kind of what I mean, but it still goes off too smoothly)
But I still watch this movie every now and then. I can almost guarantee that you'll love Kilmer's Doc Holliday role. He's got some of the best lines in this movie and he nails them too. In my opinion it's not the best western ever made(GoodBadUgly is) but Tombstone is a pretty good movie and I'd recommend it to anybody who thinks they might like westerns even just a bit.