Wyatt Earp (Single Disc Edition)

Although this production goes somewhat flat after the sequence showing Wyatt as a buffalo hunter, the fault lies with the Director for trying too hard to show Earp as suddenly devoid of emotional response and empathy. In this, the movie tries a little too hard to "explain" him. The production is, however, pretty historically accurate and the revisionists don't take over the film completely.
However,the person responsible for deciding to "slick down" Costner's hair, (even when no portraits of Earp show him wearing his hair like that, and Costner's hair is too thin to look right greased down anyway)should be shot - it bugged me for the rest of the movie. The action is realistic, with out being gratuitous, and Dennis Quaid is SUPERB as Doc Holliday, the acting is generally fine, with excellent film work.
Earp was a freind of my Grandfather, who never represented him as anything but a common man, reacting to uncommon circumstances, with the honor, honesty and determination required by the times; this production remains true to the man.
Well worth the time!

In the beginning it was very slow going and i couldn't help but think that it wasn't Costners best work by a long shot! In fact the early scenes of Kevins seemed "stiff" and very amateur, but, don't give up it picks up drastically later on and becomes a very entertaining piece. The stand out performance in this film is given by Dennis Quaid who gave his heart and soul to the part of the sickly "Doc Holliday" who was dieing of tuberculosis. Dennis lost an incredible 43 pounds for the part to appear "sickly", and it worked!

What makes a good western movie? One, it must have a solid story line. Two, it needs to have great scenery depicting the "old west." Third, it should have a mix of action and intrigue. Four, it needs experienced actors. Finally, it needs to stand by itself and not be a recapitulation of a former movie. Wyatt Earp meets all the criteria. Excellent movie with breath-taking scenery on the Blu-Ray disk. Dr. Horn

I found that the picture quality is above average in this transfer to blu-ray. It does not have as much of a 3 demensionl look as I have seen in other transfers but it still has more detail than the DVD. Also black levels are farily strong as well. The reason I gave it a bit of a lower rating is because the audio is not that stellar and the sourrounds are not used much also the features are not to bad but I think it could have a little more about the movie than just about the real story of Earp

Despite previous criticisms, I like this movie in terms of storyline, PQ and SQ. If you can forgive Kevin Costner's bland acting, then this release can be considered collectible.