Deadwood: The Movie (English) (Blu-ray)

As a big fan of the Deadwood series on HBO I was always disappointed that they never got a chance to have a final season to tie up all of the loose ends. Miraculously, a whopping 12 years later HBO brought back the writers and actors to create this movie to give fans the ending they craved. It's great to see all of the characters again and get the ending we all deserved. This finally completes my Deadwood collection. My only knocks would be that you have to re-watch the series to know what's going on and I wish there would have been a bit more action.

To avoid spoilers, we'll just say that this 2 hour movie picks up 10 years from where the series ended [prematurely]. The major players are still the same - and the same actors - which makes this "wrap up" a must have for Deadwood fans. Plenty of plot twists, old rivalries and friendships continued and renewed, old characters return, dynamite-fu, Dan-fu, Woo-fu, Swine-fu, BULLOCK-FU. This is a great ending to a series that shouldn't have stopped when it did, even if there are some new questions posed and some lingering queries unanswered.

About ten years after the series ended, as the residents of Deadwood gather to commemorate Dakota's statehood in 1889, saloon owner Al Swearengen and Marshal Seth Bullock clash with Senator George Hearst when the senator makes an offer to Charlie Utter for his property claim. Charlie declines and the results are explosive. This was a brilliant and touching send off to a great series. Congratulations to HBO, the actors, crew and all involved for giving the fans the best send off anyone could expect and more. Don't miss it.

Deadwood the movie, picks up years later from the HBO series . All characters are sadder, wiser and more grizzled as you would expect of the times they lived in and the character studies of those who didn't merely experience the future, but rather manifested it. Thoroughly enjoyable study of people who may have breathed life into a mining town prior to the turn of the last century. Highest recommendation! All actors turn in stellar performances, I may watch this two or three-hundred times!

A project that most of the actors said would never happen, Deadwood: The Movie continues the story from the acclaimed HBO series--which was cancelled before it could end it's rough tale of real-life and fantasy gunslingers and ne'er-do-wells in the real city of Deadwood, South Dakota at the dawn of the 20th century. While this is not the "end" of the story, it is a much better conclusion than the one they had before.