Wild Bill

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Nick F Wild Bill is a 1995 Western relating the life and times of the famous gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok, starring Jeff Bridges in the title role, and with a strong support cast which includes Ellen Barkin, Bruce Dern, Keith Carradine and English actor John Hurt. This movie is beautifully and atmospherically filmed, with fine acting from the entire cast… but director/writer Walter Hill chose to tell Hickok’s story in a series of flashbacks which disrupts the narrative and is often confusing and ultimately disappointing. And I am not alone in this view – the film cost 30 million dollars to make, and took only a fraction of that sum at the box office. Even so, the overall visual quality of the film is superb and if – as I did – you watch each section as an individual incident – a sort of micro-movie - it is very engaging and you can still get a sense of Hickok’s truly wild life and times. REVIEWED by Nick Fletcher Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 10/05/25 Full Review Jelisije J This movie could have done a montage of the legend Wild Bill killings to save a good amount of run time and help the pacing of this film. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 05/31/23 Full Review steve d Incompetent and untruthful. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Meh...after the success of Tombstone, this should have been huge. Big cast of stars, 30 million dollar budget, names in Production...but it is terrible. Watch the ending credits to learn why...the studios were ripped off with a grossly padded list of people doing each other's work. This was a cash grab, pure and simple. Pitch the money men with "the next Tombstone", hire an acclaimed cast, but to Hell with actually making something timeless and special, just get the money and hope the public ci ers us. What a sad sad mess...some people should be ashamed. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Decent cinematography, production design and makeup, consequently destroyed by soapish dialogue, overacting, mistaken casting and nothing too much to do with actual history, in what basically is a Hollywood mishmash where the legend of Wild Bill Hickok's last living days is made into a parody. Kudos to the respective consultants for getting some true effects, and the languages for Lakota and Cheyenne characters right. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Honestly, I found Jeff Bridges insufferable in this movie - not Wild Bill, but Jeff Bridges as "Wild Bill". No character to center around - just a story at a distance. Very uninvitingly directed. By yhe end, I just wanted David Arquette to get it over with. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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