Synopsis
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.
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Cast
- Kurt RussellWyatt Earp
- Val KilmerDoc Holliday
- Sam ElliottVirgil Earp
- Bill PaxtonMorgan Earp
- Powers BootheCurly Bill Brocius
- Michael BiehnJohnny Ringo
- Charlton HestonHenry Hooker
- Jason PriestleyBilly Breckinridge
- Jon TenneyBehan
- Stephen LangIke Clanton
Recommendations
- 80
IGN
Tombstone is incredibly entertaining. While not entirely original and not always well executed, it manages to keep your attention for the entire 130-minute duration. And let's face it, Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday is what really sets it apart. - 75
The A.V. Club
Tombstone remains a shamelessly entertaining movie, filled with lively turns from virtually every appropriate actor not working on the Costner version. - 70
Variety
Tombstone is a tough-talking but soft-hearted tale that is entertaining in a sprawling, old-fashioned manner. - 60
Los Angeles Times
A few stirring shoot-'em-ups help relieve the logjam of cliches. Director George P. (Rambo) Cosmatos does an OK job at the O.K. Corral. But even the good stuff goes on for too long. - 60
Time Out
Kilmer makes a surprisingly effective and effete Holliday, but Russell lacks the stature for Earp - Sam Elliott as his older brother Virgil suggests a better movie. There's a misguided romantic subplot and the ending rather sprawls, but mostly this is rootin', tootin' entertainment with lots of authentic facial hair. - 50
Washington Post
Highly stylized fashion-wise but awkwardly unfocused in its plotlines, it aims for the western iconography of Sam Peckinpah and Sergio Leone but never gets past its own directorial hurdles. - 50
The New York Times
Tombstone is a movie that wants to have it both ways. It wants to be at once traditional and morally ambiguous. The two visions don't quite harmonize. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
Though apparently conceived as a revisionist Western, Tombstone falls prey to the cliches of the genre, and its last third is a muddle.
