Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The setting matches many of the similar gritty movies of the late 60's and early 70's. However, much like theses same types of movies, it needs to be viewed as comparable to a comic book or a simple diversion vs. any type of historically accurate story or even a good action film. The only thing this film includes that is something better than Tombstone is the background of Wyatt offering Ike a bounty reward and not being able to deliver. Another reviewer points out the film writer's desire to show the Earps in a negative light...and thus, supposedly a more "realistic" depiction. It may be true that dime novels and films have portrayed Holiday and the Earps as unrealistic "hero" characters, but they were also not outright murderers. The truth is somewhere in between with a group of men trying to make a civilized life and future for themselves in a time and place when and where civilized society barely existed. Keach's acting Skills are not strong in this film. Faye Dunaway is the best actor in this film, but that is not saying much. Overall this film is weak, so watch at your own risk.

Before watching this movie I'd never seen a movie with Stacy Keach in it that I didn't like at least a little. If you know nothing about Old West history nor anything about any of the real life persons portrayed in this film, or it's just your wish to get all wildly conspiracy theoretical and therefore would like things to your own pleasing rather than the way they actually are known to be, then you may very well enjoy 'Doc' a great deal. However, real Old West history buffs will almost certainly be appalled by the way this film makes an extremely biased, painfully obvious attempt to rewrite history while completely disregarding all known facts. Heck, it doesn't even bother to even very loosely adhere to only the Cowboy's side of the story and then embellish it a little or even a lot; something which to my knowledge hasn't been done yet and which would have the potential to make for a very good movie, it just flat out ignores every single detail about everything, everyone and every event.Unfortunately, it would be impossible to explain the reasons this film is so unbelievably historically flawed without committing spoilers and ruining things for those who haven't yet watched. So we won't be going there. To sum it all up: Those who will watch this film purely for entertainment value, as well as those who have no knowledge whatsoever of the actual characters and events as well as those who desire history be rewritten to their own pleasing, may well enjoy this film. Alternately, those who are knowledgeable about the Old West and prefer films on the subject to be based at least a tiny bit on anything resembling reality may be very disappointed. As far as facts go the entire film is about as honest as Big Nose Kate's tiny little nose.

I saw Doc when originally released and did not like it, I thought it was demythifying the West and I was against those films. The other day I saw it on cable TV and my opinion changed completely. First, instead of demythifying it was just showing the story from another angle, more favorable to the Clantons. And second, it rang true even though it might not have been true, who knows? There is a certain beauty in truth even though truth might be ugly. And it is certainly ugly in this film. And if we think of all the westerns where we admire the gunfighters and where killing seems necessary and in self defense, Doc shows the dark side of killing . Just for that it is worth seeing.

This movie indeed skips the epic parts that made Wyatt Earp and his pals famous,but other than that its a total fabrication or even worse, a bad attempt to falsify history. I know that Mr.Earp wasn't a very nice guy and doc holliday, sick as he was, had nothing to lose anyway so he for sure was a dangerous one. But in this movie he is a nice guy that even befriends the enemy.... (don't make me laugh)...and even worse, he draws his gun on Wyatt Earp! Was this director on drugs or did he wish the story would have been this way? I watched this movie stunned and couldn't believe what i saw.... If you want to see what really happened then go watch tombstone or Wyatt Earp, those are the closest thing to the truth as far as it gets. And forget the hero stuff around it, cause the thing is heroes are made by others and none of those men where close to being one, they just where on a collision course and the whole drama was unavoidable. Just think what would have happened had they lost the gunfight???