One of the finest westerns I have ever seen!

Rating: Null/10 (9 August 2002)

I don't know if "Tombstone" was intended to be a blockbuster, but it quickly turned into one. Being a lover of good westerns and saddened that there are so few made anymore, I was thrilled when I first saw "Tombstone" in the theater. I now own it on video and DVD. As for the work of the actors, Val Kilmer steals the show. He was absolutely fantastic as Doc Holliday. He was funny and tragic at the same time and really made you believe in his relationship with Wyatt Earp. Kurt Russell was brilliant as Wyatt Earp. In a role that could easily have been overplayed, Russell makes Wyatt very human and not as stoic as history would have you think. Powers Boothe and Michael Biehn are excellent as Curly Bill and Johnny Ringo and are both vital to the movie and plot. Though some of the picture is historically correct, most of it is not. But it is a tremendous action picture complete with the usual "love interest", (handled perfectly by the beautiful Dana Delaney) great moments of humor and tragedy and a moving final scene between Doc and Wyatt. This movie is tewn times better than Kevin Costner's "Wyatt Earp." I can't tell you how much I loved this film and how highly I recommend it.