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I don't tend to like western's, apart from the classics like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, etc. But when I saw Tombstone, for only £9.99, on DVD at the weekend, I just had to get it!
Rarely do you see a serious film like this with so much to make you laugh. You just love Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell), he's so hard and cool, and from the moment he walks into that bar and chucks out that "hard" man you just know this is gonna be a cool film.
But as good as Russell is, for me this film is stolen by Val Kilmer playing Doc Holliday. In fact, he steals it with that one line: "I'm your Huckleberry". I have promised myself one day I will actually use that line. I know I'll never manage to sound as good as Doc, but I just have to try!
Basically the film is about retired law man, Wyatt Earp, who moves to the boom town of Tombstone, with his two brothers, to try to make some money. Unfortunately for them, the town is plagued by some down right nasty cowboys, who kill both of Wyatt's brothers in the battles that follow. Earp becomes the Sheriff and kicks some cowboy butt, with help from Doc and some deserter cowboys.
So it sounds like just about any other cowboy film you've ever seen? Well its not. There are a number of sub-plots: Doc's battle with his tuberculosis, the realisation that Earp is human after all with his struggles of the heart over an actress and the problems with his wife, and the tensions between the brothers over what to do about the cowboys.
I'm not trying to claim this is the best western ever made....its not. But for a tenner, can you really go wrong?
Rarely do you see a serious film like this with so much to make you laugh. You just love Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell), he's so hard and cool, and from the moment he walks into that bar and chucks out that "hard" man you just know this is gonna be a cool film.
But as good as Russell is, for me this film is stolen by Val Kilmer playing Doc Holliday. In fact, he steals it with that one line: "I'm your Huckleberry". I have promised myself one day I will actually use that line. I know I'll never manage to sound as good as Doc, but I just have to try!
Basically the film is about retired law man, Wyatt Earp, who moves to the boom town of Tombstone, with his two brothers, to try to make some money. Unfortunately for them, the town is plagued by some down right nasty cowboys, who kill both of Wyatt's brothers in the battles that follow. Earp becomes the Sheriff and kicks some cowboy butt, with help from Doc and some deserter cowboys.
So it sounds like just about any other cowboy film you've ever seen? Well its not. There are a number of sub-plots: Doc's battle with his tuberculosis, the realisation that Earp is human after all with his struggles of the heart over an actress and the problems with his wife, and the tensions between the brothers over what to do about the cowboys.
I'm not trying to claim this is the best western ever made....its not. But for a tenner, can you really go wrong?
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I don't tend to like western's, apart from the classics like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, etc. But when I saw Tombstone, for only £9.99, on DVD at the weekend, I just had to get it!
Rarely do you see a serious film like this with so much to make you laugh. You just love Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell), he's so hard and cool, and from the moment he walks into that bar and chucks out that "hard" man you just know this is gonna be a cool film.
But as good as Russell is, for me this film is stolen by Val Kilmer playing Doc Holliday. In fact, he steals it with that one line: "I'm your Huckleberry". I have promised myself one day I will actually use that line. I know I'll never manage to sound as good as Doc, but I just have to try!
Basically the film is about retired law man, Wyatt Earp, who moves to the boom town of Tombstone, with his two brothers, to try to make some money. Unfortunately for them, the town is plagued by some down right nasty cowboys, who kill both of Wyatt's brothers in the battles that follow. Earp becomes the Sheriff and kicks some cowboy butt, with help from Doc and some deserter cowboys.
So it sounds like just about any other cowboy film you've ever seen? Well its not. There are a number of sub-plots: Doc's battle with his tuberculosis, the realisation that Earp is human after all with his struggles of the heart over an actress and the problems with his wife, and the tensions between the brothers over what to do about the cowboys.
I'm not trying to claim this is the best western ever made....its not. But for a tenner, can you really go wrong?
Rarely do you see a serious film like this with so much to make you laugh. You just love Wyatt Earp (Kurt Russell), he's so hard and cool, and from the moment he walks into that bar and chucks out that "hard" man you just know this is gonna be a cool film.
But as good as Russell is, for me this film is stolen by Val Kilmer playing Doc Holliday. In fact, he steals it with that one line: "I'm your Huckleberry". I have promised myself one day I will actually use that line. I know I'll never manage to sound as good as Doc, but I just have to try!
Basically the film is about retired law man, Wyatt Earp, who moves to the boom town of Tombstone, with his two brothers, to try to make some money. Unfortunately for them, the town is plagued by some down right nasty cowboys, who kill both of Wyatt's brothers in the battles that follow. Earp becomes the Sheriff and kicks some cowboy butt, with help from Doc and some deserter cowboys.
So it sounds like just about any other cowboy film you've ever seen? Well its not. There are a number of sub-plots: Doc's battle with his tuberculosis, the realisation that Earp is human after all with his struggles of the heart over an actress and the problems with his wife, and the tensions between the brothers over what to do about the cowboys.
I'm not trying to claim this is the best western ever made....its not. But for a tenner, can you really go wrong?