Fun Fun Fun From Beginning To End!!!

Rating: Null/10 (18 May 2002)

WARNING...MIGHT BE SOME SPOILERS!!!
This is the best "new" Western movie I've ever seen and it's still one that I can watch and it's never stale or loses its power. It's got a terrific all star cast (without the really big tiresome annoying names)and it's just pure entertainment, action, comedy, drama. I just love Kurt Russell, he's perfect as the most famous of the three Earp brothers, Wyatt, a former U.S. Marshall who migrates from Kansas to the silver-rush boomtown of Tombstone, Arizona, hoping to strike it rich and live a more peaceful life as a civilian. He meets up with his brothers Virgil (another perfectly cowboy-ish actor, Sam Elliott) and Morgan (Bill Paxton). There are a couple of snags in the way of happiness for Wyatt though. His wife is addicted to laudenaum (an old time version of morphine) and there is a gang of vicious criminals who frighten even the sheriff and mayor of the little boomtown. Lead by Ringo (the always magnificent Michael Biehn) and Curly Bill (Powers Boothe) these Cowboys wear red sashes and wreak havok on the streets, shooting innocent people, terrorizing the local businesses and generally making life miserable for everyone in town. Eventually, Virgil and Morg get fed up with the Cowboy Gang and decide to get involved with a campaign to get rid of them, much to Wyatt's chagrin...all he wants is to live life in peace, without guns and violence. But he soon finds out that there will never be any peace until someone shows the Cowboys that their violence and mayhem won't be tolerated. With the help of their loyal friend Doc Holliday, (Val Kilmer's finest moments!!!) who is suffering with "consumption", The Earp Brothers wage an all out war that includes the famous "Gunfight At the O.K. Corral". There are some sad, wrenching moments of violence and death and blood, some heartfelt romance and Doc Holliday's smart aleck one liners make for some great comedy relief!!! I give it ****!!!