Doc Holliday saves this otherwise bland production

Rating: 8/10 (4 May 2011)

Excluding him, this movie is just a typical good guy action movie off the Hollywood assembly line, of the western flavour in this particular case. A bunch of macho men blah blah blah intent on leaving their fighting days behind blah blah blah, but it doesn't go so well blah blah blah and they need to fight again blah blah blah. Obviously some romance in there as well, blah blah blah.
I mean don't get me wrong, it accomplishes that kind of movie very well and that's perfectly approvable 6/10 fun in itself, nothing bad about it. Just nothing special about it either.
However, there *is* something special about this movie - and that's Doc Holliday. What can I say, Val Kilmer manages to create just an absolutely hypnotising character whose magnetism would captivate you all the same no matter what genre this movie belonged to or in what setting it happened to take place in. I feel like the rest of the movie is just an inconsequential container vessel for this one mesmerising individual. I feel like all the clichés and banalities are there so that you could for only a brief moment make eye contact with Doc Holliday, nod in agreement, and just laugh together silently about the stupidity of all of it, each knowing that the other understands *exactly* how he feels.
I suppose if the "typical good guy action movie" REALLY isn't your thing, then just this one supporting character won't be enough to bother with the whole thing, but if this kind of movie is acceptable for you like it is for me, then you will find yourself impatiently waiting for the next moment with Doc Holliday, and you'll find the wait was worth it every single time.