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www.cinescene.com - : Wyatt, Virgil and Morgan Earp (Kurt Russell, Sam Elliott and Bill Paxton) and tubercular gambler Doc Holliday (Val Kilmer) team up to save Tombstone from the villainous Cowboys gang. This skewed but not wildly inaccurate telling of the events leading to the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral is a fast-paced and entertaining western, at least until the gunfight. The movie trails off into routine action movie mechanics in the final act, but it's still one of the best recent additions to the western genre. Kilmer's extremely odd but engaging performance is the highlight of the film. more...
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www.filmcritic.com - : The definitive populist telling of the Wyatt Earp story, Tombstone has more fun with the story than traditionalist versions like Kevin Costner's Wyatt Earp, with a younger, more crowd-pleasing cast -- Thomas Haden Church plays a bad guy; Jason Priestley is a deputy. And it's got more factual holes than the Clanton gang ended up with -- all in the name of serving up Good Clean Fun. more...
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