With a runtime of over 3 hours, and a star-studded cast like this, I expected to be absolutely enthralled almost from start 'til finish. Unfortunately, this missed the mark by a country mile. While it had its moments (the one thing in the movie's description that can't be argued is the line _"stunning cinematography"_ ) it was far, far removed from what I was expecting. There was very little about Wyatt Earp as one of the fastest, most feared gunslinging lawmen of the wild west; instead, this basically a story about "Wyatt Earp, the guy in the west who was just like a thousand other guys in the west, only with a more well-known name". Seriously... I watched this because I was expecting to see a CONSIDERABLE amount about "Wyatt Earp, the gunslinger" who helped tame so many towns in his day. Not sure how close to "historically accurate" this actually was, but this just basically turned out to be a very long boring movie about an ordinary guy with a well-known name. I give it a "Fair" because of the cast and the cinematography, and because it had some interesting moments but overall, I wouldn't watch this one again. I like Kevin Costner, but_Tombstone_ was a much better movie, and an hour shorter. And no offense to the cast of _Wyatt Earp_ but the cast of _Tombstone_ was much MUCH better. Val Kilmer needs his own _Doc Holliday_ movie!

Tombstone was a different beast, and that sort of overshadows this, given that one tries to be more accurate and the other goes for entertainment.

Take Wyatt Earp as a biopic and it is a superb and fair film. Compare it to Tombstone which was more of a Western and it's lacking the flair.

However, it ends abruptly, and it is miscast. Cosner (and i am a fan) doesn't really make a good Earp. Dennis Quaid who I am also a fan of, doesn't make a good Doc. This was 1994, in the 80s I might have a different opinion, but they both looked a bit old for their characters and the time.

However, I did like the parts of the Earp story that they added, I did lament the absence of Luke Short (who needs his own movie), and I liked how the story unfolded.

For a biopic, it is an epic. It just got compared to a western.