If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Wow! What a bizarre film! Unfortunately the few funny moments there were were quite overshadowed by it's completely weird and random vibe throughout.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Western movies is not usually within my preferred genre of movies to sit down to watch, but I was given the chance to watch this.And I must admit that I was a little bit intrigued as I saw that Kris Kristofferson was on the cast list. But it turned out that he had only a minor role in the movie.The storyline was entertaining, for sure, although it suffered from being generic and predictable. There certainly was a good flow to the movie, and good progression in the storyline, so you never felt that the movie came to a halt.The acting in the movie was good, and the actors and actresses were putting in good efforts to bring their characters to life on the screen.But somehow I sit here with a feeling of 'was that really it?' now that I have watched the movie.Surely this movie is one for true fans of the old classic western genre.

Students of history know the legend of James Butler Hickok was highly fictionalized in the dime novels of his era; however, this film goes so far beyond fiction that the title and titled character could have been called Wild Bill Pisspot and no one would be any wiser that the story was supposed to be about Hickok. The acting barely existent. Kris Kristofferson has kept his streak alive by being in yet another film in which displays absolutely no acting ability. As for Trace Atkins, he definitely shouldn't quit his singing career since it's something he's actually good at. I'm sure he's having fun dressing up and playing cowboy in the movies, but he does so at the cost of his dignity. He should consider firing his Hollywood agent and any posse of yes men who deceptively praise his performance, and face that fact acting talent he has not. Luke Hemsworth's performance is mediocre at best, but I believe it's entirely a result of an idiotic, unscreenworthy screenplay and lack of directing talent. I liked Bruce Dern as the kindly old drunken doctor, but the Director and Screenwriter did him a grave disservice by limiting his role and providing him dialogue that is far beneath his talent. I'll never forget the first time I saw Bruce Dern in a movie. It was 1972, I was 11 years old watching John Wayne and The Cowboys at the local movie house, and Bruce Dern simply scared the the hell out of me and my buddies when he threatened the little cowboy with the eyeglasses. For a long time afterward, we all but despised Dern. To making such a lasting and emotional impression on a generation of movie goers is the sign of an exceptional actor. As for the editing of this not so fine feature, once could only assume the job was given to the producer's young brother-in-law in order to just get his unreal Hollywood housewife to get the hell off his back about finding Junior a job in the movie business, because this film's editing is as choppy as it gets. To all the non-psychic investors out there who actually helped finance this F-class movie, I'm sure there are many more realist viewers out there who are thinking...."suckers!"

I'm sorry, the movie has talent behind it. It also has talent familiar with westerns.But the direction stinks and the entire film in hampered by poor production values.It looks not unlike a movie of the week, if the movie of the week had half the budget of a single episode of a reality TV show.Here and there you can spot a clever lighting trick, something that adds a little bit of beauty, a little bit of photographic excellence. But those moments are few and far between, and even then you can tell that they were giving all they could with next to nothing.The sets just looked cheap, especially if you're watching it on a TV with any real resolution.Even the blood looked cheap and fake.The best thing this movie could have done was work in the shadows, make it dingy and dark in an effort to hide how cheap it all is.instead, it went for decent lighting, and unfortunately, that didn't hide as much as it should have.

Wild Bill was one of the most interesting characters in history. What he did would make a really interesting movie. He was no angel, so it'd be easy to pick up a history book and make a realistic Wild Bill that was way better than this portrayal, which was a really bad cliché. The dialog was actually worse than the screenplay and that was pretty difficult to do since the screenplay would embarrass even a first year film student. This is the worst Western I've seen in quite a while, couldn't even finish it. Pity there were some good actors in this movie. Trapped is probably a better word. I suspect most of them hope nobody ever watched this movie. The opening scene says it all. Wild Bill rides into a Confederate Cannon and Gattling gun firing single action revolvers without cocking the trigger and it just goes downhill from there.