Rip-snortin', yet kind of dull

Rating: Null/10 (8 June 2000)

Kurt Russel makes a fine Wyatt Earp in this otherwise decent
western. It has it share of gritty performances, (especially by
Russel and Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday) gunfights, and horseback
rides. Wyatt and his brothers Virgil (Sam Elliot) and Morgan
(Bill Paxton) along with Doc had cleaned up the dusty town of
Tombstone, but a group of nasty bandits raid the nice village,
persuading the Earp Bros. and company to save the town, a la
"The Magnificent Seven."
This is a nice flick, but it doesn't really hold the viewer's
interest long enough like how a real western should. The film
spends way too long on concentrating on the Earps' personal
lives. I was getting impatient with that and I wanted to see
some real blood to flow!! If you want to see a western with lots
of gunfights and bloodshed, try "Posse" or "The Quick and the
Dead (19