Clevercell Very disappointing...

Lawbolisted Powerful

Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

adonis98-743-186503 Wyatt Earp is a movie about a man and his family. The movie shows us the good times and the bad times of one of the West's most famous individuals. Wyatt Earp packs a handful of good punches thanks to Kevin Costner's and Dennis Quaid's amazing performances and especially Quaid that even lost 30 pounds for the role. The running time of 3 hours and 15 minutes wasn't as bad as i thought it was going to be the film is indeed kinda slow paced but it's not a bad one in terms of that it actually has some great action sequences and a great scene where Kevin Costner truly shows his action skills during the ending but also threw out the whole movie his character is easily likable, brave and of course cares for the people around him. The rest of the Cast does a good job as well although actors such as Gene Hackman and Bill Pulman are hardly in the film especially Hackman who is the 3rd top billed in the film and his screen time was less than 10 minutes. Although i gotta say it was great seeing Karen Grassle even for those 3 minutes of screen time that she had in case you don't know who she is she actually starred in 'Little House on the Prairie' as Laura's mother. Overall great actors and a very talented Cast, some great Music threw out of the whole Journey and some really interesting Characters make this film quite interesting and underrated and sure it's not Perfect but it's not Awful either. (8/10)

felicity_gr I'm writing here starting with a clean slate: I watched the film without knowing who Wyatt Earp was, or that there was another film (Tombstone) about the same guy, which everyone has been comparing Wyatt Earp to. So, I'm not prejudiced and I'm not gonna make comparisons. It was just a boring film, with a nonsensical script that dragged on and on unnecessarily, occasionally introduced new characters who didn't have any meaningful contribution to the plot, and little to no sense of adventure and excitement. But the most annoying thing in the movie, I have to admit, is Kevin Costner himself. It seems that Mr Costner has a knack for playing the same character in every movie he stars in: a brooding, smile-less, miserable, cold-outside- but-with-a-heart-of- gold tough macho guy. Well, not such a good guy here, in my opinion. Just a cold-hearted bastard, as one of the characters calls him. But I digress. So, if the film wasn't unbearable enough, Costner's performance makes it even worse. Towards the end I had to fast- forward; I didn't miss anything important, and you wouldn't either, believe you me.

drjgardner The most famous lawmaker from the old west is Wyatt Earp (1848 – 1929), largely because he survived and actually went to work for Hollywood in his old age during the silent era, hob knobbing with directors John Ford and Raoul Walsh, and actors William Hart, Tom Mix, and Harry Carey. Some say he even had an influence on a young John Wayne.Earp was first featured in the 1923 "Wild Bill Hickok" and Earp himself worked behind the scenes with his buddy William Hart (who played Hickok). He appeared again in "Frontier Marshall" (1934) and John Ford produced the first notable film about Earp, called "My Darling Clementine" (1946).The "Wyatt Earp" TV series (1955 – 61) gave birth to the 1957 film "Gunfight at OK Corral". John Sturges directed this film and re- visited the era with "Hour of the Gun" (1967). In the 1990s, "Tombstone" (1993) and "Wyatt Earp" (1994) gave us more intense portraits. In Tombstone, we have Kurt Russell (Earp), Val Kilmer (Doc) and Stephen Lang (Ike Clanton) with Sam Elliott and Bill Paxton as the Earp brothers, Powers Boothe as an unredeemable Curly Bill Brocius and Michael Biehn as the deadly Johnny Ringo.Actors who played Earp include Henry Fonda ("My Darling Clementine"), Hugh O'Brien ("Wyatt Earp" TV series), Burt Lancaster ("Gunfight at OK Corral"), James Garner ("Hour of the Gun"), and Kurt Russell ("Tombstone"). For my tastes, the best Earp was Hugh O'Brien on the TV series, followed by Kurt Russell ("Tombstone") whom I think was the more realistic Earp.Actors who played Doc Holiday include Victor Mature who played a wonderful coughing Doc Holiday ("My Darling Clementine") as does Dennis Quaid in this film. Val Kilmer ("Tombstone"), Kirk Douglas ("Gunfight at OK Corral"), Jason Robards ("Hour of the Gun"), and Douglas Fowley ("Wyatt Earp" TV series) also played Doc. Val Kilmer is my favorite Doc Holiday, though I am partial to TV's Douglas Fawley.Old Man Clanton was played savagely by Walter Brennan ("My Darling Clementine") but otherwise rarely shown. For villains, no one was as despicable as Walter Brennan ("My Darling Clementine") although Powers Boothe ("Tombstone") came close and I was also fond of Michael Biehn ("Tombstone").Ike Clanton has been played by Robert Ryan ("Hour of the Gun"), Lyle Bettger ("Gunfight at OK Corral"), and Stephen Lang ("Tombstone")Billy Clanton was played by John Ireland ("My Darling Clementine"), Dennis Hopper ("Gunfight at OK Corral"), and Thomas Haden Church ("Tombstone"). Hopper's cowardly Clanton is the most memorable.The Brothers Earp have been played by Ward Bond and Tim Holt ("My Darling Clementine"), DeForest Kelley and Martin Milner ("Gunfight at OK Corral")Johnny Ringo has only occasionally been featured in films dealing with Wyatt Earp. He appeared in "Gunfight at OK Corral" by John Ireland and in "Tombstone" by Michael Biehn.Curly Bill Brocius has only occasionally been featured, by Jon Voight ("Hour of the Gun") and Powers Boothe in "Tombstone". Boothe is the stand-out.With this as background, how does 1994's "Wyatt Earp" stand up? Pretty poorly. "Wyatt Earp" had Kevin Costner (Earp), Dennis Quaid (Doc), and Jeff Fahey (Ike Clanton) along with a host of women who played the Earp's extended family. We even had Gene Hackman in a cameo as the father. It is a seemingly never-ending tale about Wyatt's entire life, with very little action and almost no character development among the critical players like Ike Clanton, Curly Bill, and Johhny Ringo. As such, it's nearly impossible to understand what is happening. (FWIW – the only film to make an attempt to explain the behind the scenes happenings is "Tombstone").This isn't the worst Wyatt Earp film. That honor goes to "Hour of the Gun". But it is a colossal waste of talent. The only memorable scene is at the very end of the film.

dfwesley I am not a Kevin Costner fan and think he is the most one dimensional actor around. Sometimes his delivery in this movie struck me as amateurish. I thought he wasn't bad in DANCING WITH WOLVES but that was his best effort.I had to smile at the good guys wearing black and looking like morticians,(which they were in a sense). All that hot desert weather and they were in heat absorbing black.The scenes with wives and lovers were tedious and added little to the film.Frankly, any movie this long should be classified as epic, and this one certainly did not fall into that category. I can think of a good handful of westerns without much effort, superior to this one.