Touches You

A Masterpiece!

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

For very good reason, copies of this on DVD are selling for around A$2 on eBay. The parts of Val Kilmer retelling the story weren't too bad - it was the parts that showed the story that were just awful. It didn't flow at all and jumped around too much to be able to relate to any of it. There's no other way to describe the acting than shocking. I've seen better acting at school plays than was on show here. I'd love to know how much these people were being paid for their roles. If it's anything significant then I'm downing tools and becoming an actor because while I may not be better than this lot (Kilmer excluded), I couldn't be worse.The actual premise of the story in itself isn't a bad one and having done some research on it is quite an interesting tale. The way it's portrayed in Wyatt Earp's Revenge is just terrible. I wouldn't have been surprised if Rob Schneider popped in for a cameo it was that cringe worthy.Kilmer was good, the rest not even worth bothering with.

seriously, where did that $3milion budget went? the story, i didn't even know he was going after the bad guys for killing his girlfriend. i thought they were going after Kennedy brothers for justice! the acting was questionable. last fight scene; if you paid attention,you see "spike Kennedy" threw the guns away, then you see them fighting "spike"still got his gun in the holster. he(spike) throw away his guns because he just loaded them and they went out of bullets? There were other goofs in this movie. If you are bored, i guess watch this but do not pay too much attention on the setting, acting, sound, mostly everything about the movie; just leave it running to pass time!

When I first saw that Val Kilmer was in this... my first thought was maybe this was a sequel to the awesome Tombstone movie. This has nothing to do with the movie. I thought that was a big mistake because they could have created a connection to that movie... Instead of having Kilmer play an older Earl, he could have revised his role as Doc Holiday instead... In Tombstone, Doc is seen bedridden at the end... They could have had a reporter visit him at the hospital and have Doc talk about his younger days as a dentist and how he became a gunslinger. Now that would have been a great movie ... and it would have work great... even have Russel, Paxton and Elliot make cameo appearances... assuming they didn't ask for too much money to appear.This movie... was OK. It starred the bad guy from the Resident Evil movie (the boss with the sunglasses).. Kilmer wasn't in any of the actual action part of the movie... there were just flashbacks to him narrating the story... but the other guy was the actual star, not Kilmer.As a western movie, it was OK.. better than some other ones I've seen. Low budget, but it's not like you're going to expect hi-tech gadgets displayed by cowbows, right? If you're looking for something to pass the time with... then this would be great movie to watch.

When someone says "straight to DVD" that invokes a certain "image" about a film, and this movie embodies it perfectly. Small budget, virtually unknown cast, simple story... pretty much everything you'd expect. But that's not to say it doesn't have good points too: Val Kilmer as an elder Wyatt Earp does a fine job and has several genuinely touching moments. Wilson Bethel steals his scenes as Doc Holliday, taking a hilarious and memorable turn as the character Kilmer himself made famous. (And Kilmer as Doc fans will appreciate that Bethel seems to be playing from the former's play-book - down to using Kilmer's more memorable lines.) There are some truly lovely vista shots (as one would expect from any western worth it's salt) and a few honestly funny comedic moments.Down the downside, I do wish Trace Adkins had gotten more scene time and the script could have definitely done with a bit of a cliché overhaul.Overall, I'd say it does a fine job at being exactly what it is - a straight to DVD Western; nothing more and nothing less.