Review – Tombstone

I’ve never quite acquired the knack for westerns, so I have to admit that I can’t say for sure whether a genre fan would like this one or not. To my taste, this was a mediocre action movie and not much more. Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer star as Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, playing their roles in a distinctly non-legendary mode. This is particularly true of Kilmer’s tubercular pallor, sweating and coughing, not at all becoming for a great hero of the American West. Normally I value realism and attention to detail in movies, but in the fabled realm of the gunslinger, normal human traits such as vulnerability to illness are more of a distraction than an asset. Beyond that, however, this is a comfortable parade of the usual clichés. Mildly amusing