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01/26/06
Wyatt Earp (1994)
42 %
Reviews Counted: 26 Fresh: 11 Rotten:15 Average Rating: 5.3/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 32 mins
Synopsis: Epic biography about legendary cowboy Wyatt Earp. The film spans Earp's life, from his youth, when blood and gore made him deeply uncomfortable, to his role in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, to his becoming a rigid, by-the-book sheriff. Also dramatized are Earp's relationships... [More]
Genre: Westerns
Starring: Kevin Costner, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, Jeff Fahey, Mark Harmon
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Though handsome to look at (cinematography is by Owen Roizman), the movie is overlong, stately, and too detailed for its own good; director Kasdan claims his version if more accurate, which may be true, but it doesn't make for a good picture.
12/21/06
A great Western that was unfairly disparaged back in 1994. The authentic Wyatt Earp is actually a much-better film than the pulpier, more-popular Tombstone.
01/25/06
Costner's still shouting, but it's hard to hear him from all the way back there in 1940.
07/27/04
...hiding in this three-hour-plus extravaganza is a good two-hour movie. Too bad it's so hard to find.
06/01/04
Well-meaning western yarn starring Costner in the title role but it's too slow-moving and uneven to digest as anything riveting regarding the Wild West. Kasdan's Wyatt Earp definitely ends up shoots blanks
05/31/03
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05/20/03
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Turgid and painfully poker-faced, though Dennis Quaid's Doc Holliday is as good as anyone's
12/30/02
A parabolic sagebrush saga about this legendary figure in the Wild West.
08/20/02
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