Lightweight Western

Rating: 7/10 (13 June 2005)

Lightweight western staring Kurt Russel as Wyat Earp and Val Kilmer as Doc Holiday. The film plays fast and loose with history (as most westerns do) but the famous OK Coral shootout is well choreographed and pretty accurate. The problem being the shootout occurs in middle of the film and nothing after matches the intensity of that one scene. But even so this film is worth a watch for western fans and the performances range from OK Bill Paxton, Sam Elliot to a surprisingly good Kilmer as Doc Holiday. The action scenes are handled well but it never stretches the genre like the better 'modern' westerns i.e. Unforgiven, Open Range etc. Overall its a slick, competent western and an enjoyable couple of hours 7/10