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.

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