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Plot: Audiences overlooked this film, one of the better westerns in several years, featuring yet another terrific performance by Jeff Bridges, America's most underrated movie actor. As James Butler Hickock,...( read more read more... ) he captures the sense of a man at the end of his career, one of the first media superstars who discovers that his legend is more burden than blessing. As he heads toward his final hand of poker in Deadwood, South Dakota, he flashes back to his younger days and the events that built his reputation, even as he copes with encroaching blindness caused by syphilis. Walter Hill blends action and elegy, utilizing a screenplay based both on Pete Dexter's novel Deadwood and on Thomas Babe's play Fathers and Sons. Wild Bill features strong supporting performances by John Hurt (as a Hickock sidekick) and Ellen Barkin (as the tough, lusty Calamity Jane)--but the centerpiece is the sad, manly performance by Bridges, who more than measures up to the part. --Marshall Fine

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  • hermanleroux
    hermanleroux
    3.0 Stars
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    September 22, 2008
    Nie te sleg nie, heel kykbaar, ook op DVD. Jeff se vertolking is darem nie een dimensioneel nie. Mens kry die man - dis nou Wild Bill - half jammer, want hy is 'n produk, tot 'n mate, van sy omgewing, en dan ook later van wat mense van hom sou verwag. Die geweld en skiet tonele is verteerbaar en nie oordadig bloederig nie. En tannie Ellen het nog die goedere om kaal uit 'n bad te kan spring! ;-)
  • TrevorJ72
    TrevorJ72
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    August 8, 2007
    One of my all-time favorite westerns. Bridges' turn as Hickock was even better than his portrayal on Deadwood.
  • riverotter
    riverotter
    3.0 Stars
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    May 6, 2007
    Like many of Walter Hill's films, this one is flawed but fascinating. Bridges is suitably gruff and haunted as the doomed title character, and Ellen Barkin is a memorably tough-as-nails Calamity Jane. It's overlong and a tad overblown, but Hill proves once again that he's one of the few directors alive today who really understands the genre.
  • nanoqna
    nanoqna
    1.0 Star
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    January 4, 2007
    theyre trying to be different and thats good. but you have to make him interesting. theyre trying to make him more realistic but they just makeh im ugly and not interesting. the plainsman is a better movie.
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    August 31, 2006
    walter hill is an amazing film maker at times but ib never heard of this and am not a fan of jeff bridges

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