Wyatt Earp (1994)

Fantastic!

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I love the extended edition , it is only available on Laserdisc Box set I have seen this cut on VHS on bidding sites I do not give away reenstated scenes which envolved more of Doc Holiday and Wyatt freindship , The main high point is the soundtrack by " James Newton Howard

Wyatt Earp offers a broadly scoped tale about the life of the immortal lawman, but it has nothing much to say about him.Earp has earned his place in history for his law enforcement of Tombstone, Arizona which peaked at the legendary gun fight at the O. K. Corrall. Otherwise he had no major accomplishments which warrant a biopic of this length. As the film goes from scene to scene, Director Lawrence Kasdan tries to be objective and dramatically unmanipulative, unlike Tombstone. As a result, you feel like you are watching genuine pieces of history minus a feeling of emotional investment.The first act of the film, starting with Earp as a boy and ending with the death of his first wife, could have been cut out completely. None of this material seems particularly meaningful. Wyatt Earp comes alive around the middle portion with the introduction of Doc Holiday. Filling his shoes is Dennis Quaid whose charisma steals the show and renders Kevin Costner an afterthought.Costner himself is one of the movie's biggest problems. His Wyatt Earp is shamefully dull. It is as if he based his performance on the real mans bland facial expression in his few surviving photographs. What we end up with is a shell of a man who has no fire in his eyes, and he radiates all the stiff ghostliness of a century old mugshot. The movie builds some dramatic momentum toward the O.K. Corrall stand off. This is easily the best scene in the movie even though it lacks the fiery intensity of Tombstone's version.Costumes, make-up and especially photography are all top notch but that's almost inevitable. With a bit of recasting, rewriting and a couple trims, this could have been a more memorable movie.

Furthermore, the annoying, totally irrelevant sound track which bombarded from the very beginning to the end, stick to every scene was so stupid, pointless and blind. The tune of the sound track failed to match every scene, yet still kept playing on and on.The script was so poorly crafted like an old woman's countless wrinkles, fold after fold, baffle after baffle, then the moronic director didn't even know how to appropriately concise and concentrate a bit, so many unnecessary scene after scene that should be omitted or should be cut away by a smarter editing company. The whole movie should be at least 1 and half hour short, yet it lag on and on, forced the viewers to watch so many pointless scenes.This is the worst and the most boring movie that Western genre could have ever achieved. It just pushed me into YAWNTOPIA.

Kevin Costner can Pass as a Movie Star, once in awhile, but Simply does not have the Depth as an Actor to Pull Off this Heavy Study of the Western Icon. Especially when the Script takes Over Three Hours to put On Screen, the Length and Microscopic Details that Focus on the Life of Wyatt Earp ends up Revealing itself as another Kevin Costner Vanity Project.He is a Much Better Fit in "Open Range" (2003) having Grown Out of His Self Aggrandizement and His Film Projects in the Later Years show a Humble Restraint. Lessons Learned.Mediocre and Inconsistent Director Lawrence Kasdan must take Equal Blame for this Elongated, Episodic Epic. It's Not a Bad Film, but Only Slightly Above Average. Because the Better Parts (the Cinematography, and some good B Actors) are Intruded Upon by way too Many side Stories and a Bloated, Wordy Script that Keeps making the same Points, Over and Over.Overall, it's an Obese Film that seems to Never get any Momentum and even when it Manages some Motion, it is Reined In and Slowed Down by rather Boring and Unwelcome Scenes. The Movie Ends a Number of Times and the Train Sequence in one of the Endings is so Mishandled and Unremarkable as to be Anti-Climactic and Nearly Incomprehensible.Worth a Watch for Die-Hard Western Fans, but Others are Not Likely to be Impressed and may have Trouble making it to One of the Endings.