"Skin that smokewagon and see what happens."

Rating: 8/10 (29 June 2014)

There have been many movies made about Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the O.K. Corral. Chief among those are probably John Ford's "My Darling Clementine" and John Sturges' "Gunfight at the O.K. Corral." Both of those are classic westerns that I love a lot. But this one is my favorite because it's just such an interesting and fun movie. Kurt Russell, Sam Elliott, and Bill Paxton as the Earps are all great. Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, Stephen Lang, and the other Cowboys make for exciting, colorful villains. But the star of the show that steals every scene he's in is Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday. This is easily the best role of his career, in my opinion. The rest of the cast is fantastic. Really it's an amazing movie with good characters and lots of memorable lines and scenes. While there are historical inaccuracies (aren't there always), it's more accurate than the other more well-regarded films about Earp and Holliday, such as the two I mentioned before. If you like westerns you should like this but I think it also has appeal outside of that fanbase, due to the fun script and the action movie tone of it all.