Billy Bob Thornton as a cowboy?

Rating: 4/10 (11 April 2020)

Directed by George P Cosmatos, Tombstone is a dull, generic western featuring an all star cast of Kurt Russell, Charlton Heston, Sam Elliot and Billy Bob Thornton. The film was supposedly directed by Russell after the original writer director Kevin Jarre was fired.
Tombstone was fairly successful when released and now many consider it a cult classic. It uses all the tropes of the classic westerns of the 50's and 60's. Lots of gunfights, spurs and mustaches but at a certain point, one realizes there's nothing new here, everything has been done much better in other films. One sequence rips off Sergio Leone's masterpiece The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
4/10. Behind all the decor, there's nothing really substantial here.