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Young Guns 2: Blaze of Glory

1990

Geoff Murphy

Emilio Estévez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater ...

5.5

2,335

Western The movie begins with the aging Brushy Bill Roberts narrating his story to a young historian. His claim? He claims that he is the famous outlaw William H. Bonney, alias Billy the Kid, who was supposedly shot and killed by Patrick Floyd Garrett in 1881. The old man gives a very convincing story on how he and Garrett, along with Arkansas Dave Rudabaugh, Chavez y Chavez, Doc Skurlock, and a few others led the outlaw life and avoided the ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	"A western that's smaller than life (...) [The screenplay] is never quite sure where its sympathies lie."
		Elaine Paterson Time Out	"The plot is all pot-shots and posses, with a bit of Indian hocus-pocus thrown in for comic relief. In other words, more of the same."
		Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"The trouble with so many of today’s young actors is that there’s no deep-seated yearning or fury in their performances."
		Variety	"Although it’s more ambitious than most sequels, 'Young Guns II' exhausts its most inspired moment during the opening credits and fades into a copy of its 1988 predecessor"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The first 'Young Guns', in 1988, was an endurance test for all (...)Though it seems impossible, the sequel is even more excruciating."

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