Majorthebys Charming and brutal

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Yash Wade Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

SRCJunk First, I loved the performances and everyone looked and acted fairly believable although Calamity Jane was way to pretty and shapely. What the movie lacked was any semblance of the truth. I know that the creators wanted to find some kind of artistic or psychological truth but the fact is that when you set out to make a movie about a famous person whose life is shrouded in exaggeration and legend, you really owe it to them to flush out the real life with some accuracy although it is always fine to take some license to make it entertaining. The famous death scene is really done in such a ridiculous way that it mars the whole movie. Calamity Jane isn't there and Jack just walks in and shoots him in the back. Wild Bill is shown with his back to the wall whereas he really had his back to the door. Jack killed him in cold blood with an ambush from behind and was later found guilty and hanged for it.

rusty13252 Out of every movie i have ever seen based on a legendary old west figure this movie was the largest pile of horse s**T i have ever seen.There is not 1/100 of fact base in this film i have spent 25 years of my life researching legendary western figures from Wyatt Earp to the back shooter Pat Garret and believe me they have made some stinkers but this is no doubt the worst pile of lies and misleads i ever saw. I WISH THERE WAS A RATING LESS THEN 1 BECAUSE THIS MOVIE WOULD RATE A - 10.Not to mention very bad acting from second rate actors.Walter Hill directed my favorite movie of all times the 1979 cult classic THE WARRIORS {in which he also used James Remar }so i expected better from him.This movie is a disgrace to a otherwise great director.

Samiam3 Perhaps I love Deadwood too much; the critically praised, HBO series for which director Walter Hill appropriately won an Emmy for the pilot. I clearly set my expectations a little too high of this one, which predates the Deadwood series by eight years or so. Coming from Walter Hill, the man behind the Warriors and The Long Riders, there is no way that Wild Bill should have been this sloppy. His portrayal of the life and death of James Butler Hickok results in a motion picture that self-destructs in spectacular fashion. It is vastly underwritten, poorly acted, edited as if it were a labyrinth of jungle vines to be cut down by a machete, and on top of that the movie is also severely anti-climactic.All that Hill gets right is that parts of the movie are well shot, and he is able to capture the look of the times on screen, but on the pages, it is a different matter. The opening twenty minutes (give or take) are especially excruciating. What we see is almost a joke, totally amateurish and more oriented towards obnoxious gunplay than character illumination. I felt like I was watching kiddies play cowboys and Indians on the street with little wooden pistols. Jeff Bridges portrayal of Hickok is devoid of talent and humanity. It is so obviously a performance, with hammy delivery, poor timing, and failure to capture Bill's misery and self loathing and his love for Calamity Jane.When all is said and done, Wild Bill is a dud. It is clumsy and careless, and is easily one of the worst westerns I have ever seen.

garotycoyote I thought this movie to be a truly great one and the key here is really great acting especially from Jeff Bridges. For that reason and that reason alone its worth seeing this movie. To actually experience the realism created by this level of acting is truly a feat that movie actors strive to achieve. Jeff Bridges has achieved that in this rendition of Wild Bill.I really do not have anything more I can say about this but its the sort of film that leaves you wishing there would be a sequel. If this were to become a TV series I would probably put money on it to say it would be a winner. So find it rent it sit back and watch one of the most enjoyable movies of all time.