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Wyatt Earp

	Wyatt Earp
	by Warner Home Video Sales Rank: 12141 Price: $4.98

This massive, in-depth study of the dark Western icon comes off with mixed results. Trying to capture the whole life, (warts and all) of the lawman-criminal-brother-fortune hunter, director Lawrence Kasdan gains points for sheer scale, giving us a rich epic painted in dark colors with gritty settings. But the visual poetry and extensive foreshadowing ruin the dramatic drive. Some scenes have as much impact as stalker movies; you're just waiting for someone to get knocked off. As Earp, Kevin Costner is not afraid to look rumpled and play colorlessly (as in <I>The Bodyguard</I>), but it saps the energy of this 3-hour-plus film. The only relief is Dennis Quaid as a droll Doc Holiday, a much more engaging character. New faces Linden Ashby and Joanna Going (as an Earp brother and a lover, respectively) are solid finds, though the remainder of the female cast is barely given anything to do. Best is the first half, with Costner, as hip as he was in his <I>Silverado</I> days, going through a series of ups and downs until he accidentally finds his profession. Great set design (Ida Random) utilizes dozens of similar settings that always look distinctive. Recommended to fans of the star and the genre, but the story never justifies its length. <I>--Doug Thomas</I> *Viewer Reviews* In a recent interview on the "Director's" series on TV, Lawrence Kasdan noted that Kevin Costner was already well into production on this "series", when he asked Kasdan to come on as Director. Costner was preparing a mini-series for HBO of "Earp", and, when that fell through he needed help in reshaping it as a movie. Kasdan did what he could, but it was too late to do very much in the way of cutting the series down. Other: I love this film, and I love the fact that Earp never took a bullet, lived to a ripe old age, and was buried in a Jewish cemetary near San Francisco near his wife "Josie"...RIP Back To Top
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