Wyatt Earp Reviews

Basically, it is one of those movies I wanted to see for many years, even though it has a lousy reputation. Eventually, even though it was supposed to be a great epic, it unfortunately ended up being a really dull Western. It wasn't really bad, the poster was pretty cool, the opening scene was really awesome and there was a decent cast but the whole thing was still really disappointing to watch. Indeed, right after the great opening scene, the whole thing became rather boring to watch. I mean, it takes Wyatt Earp 1 hour to finally become a sheriff and even though it was pretty neat to see the always dependable Gene Hackman portray his father, it also removed a lot of mystic around this legendary character. Imaging if in 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly', they would spend a 1 hour long about a flashback explaining that Clint Eastwood was actually a very nice guy before he got unlucky and became a ruthless killer. It doesn't sound really exciting, does it? Even after that, they keep throwing at you a lot of information which probably was historically correct but it was so loosely connected, I didn't care much about it. Eventually, when Wyatt Earp finally became the badass Sheriff we have all heard about, even then, the whole thing still didn't produce much excitement, I'm afraid. Basically, this movie is one of those numerous vanity projects made by Kevin Costner in the 90's (see also 'The Postman', 'Waterworld' and even 'Dances with Wolves'). To conclude, even though it remains watchable, I think I'm really generous with my rating but if you love the genre, it still worth a look though.