Hickok

My favorite performance in the film comes from Bruce Dern, enthusiastically loopy as the booze-soaked town doctor. You can rarely accuse Bruce Dern of phoning it in.

A perfectly serviceable Western featuring a comfortingly familiar storyline, Hickok will tide genre fans over until more substantial offerings come along.

The legendary Wild West gunslinger rides again in this unabashedly retrograde oater.

For a film about one of the fastest guns in the West, the dramatically lightweight "Hickok" is mighty slow on the draw.

Hickok is like that: it tends to skip potentially interesting story developments, probably due to the way-too-short runtime.

A tense and satisfying Western. But you do have to check your realistic expectations at the door.

Despite some stylish shootouts, this mildly compelling if haphazardly assembled oater lacks historical context and fires too many narrative blanks.

Straightforward drama featuring "Wild Bill" Hickok is unlikely to impress theatre audiences but could come as a welcome surprise to genre fans on home-viewing platforms.