Young Guns

  • 1988


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51 %
41 % Rotten
$ 45 Million
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Positive Reviews 5
Negative reviews 9
Average Rating 2.4/5

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1.5
As Billy the Kid, Emilio Estevez is the nominal star here, but no one really shines. Variety
1.5
Little more than a flawed romp, but energetic and enjoyable, with sterling performances from Sutherland and Estevez. Time Out
4.5
Young Guns is best watched in the playful, none too serious spirit in which it was made. The New York Times
2.0
Good idea to cast the brat pack in a Western but this was badly realised and altogether a bit flat.
2.0
Young Guns is simply not a very good movie western or otherwise. Fuscos script provides little character development and muddies the narrative with so .. Tv Guide
1.5
Christopher Cain directed this western from a script by John Fusco, and on the whole seems much more comfortable with the scroungy and scatological di .. Chicago Reader
3.0
Its a western that shows both box office calculation and respect for American history. Radio Times
1.5
The polite word for his kind of filmmaking is classical. Another word is trite. Cs Monitor
4.5
This is a very brown movie: leather, planks of wood, dirt, dust, horses, and the tenor of the performances.
2.5
Young Guns is a very Dean ish, sensitive delinquent melodrama disguised, for no good reason, as a western. Chicago Tribune
2.5
Yet the story is told with too much affection for gunplay and the only thought worth preserving is that these mythic figures of the Old West often wer .. Chicago Tribune
1.5
Though it pales beside such antecedents as Arthur Penns The Left Handed Gun or Sam Peckinpahs Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, it has a slick, smoky vig .. La Times
0.5
The boys shoot, ride, flirt, get high on peyote and revel in enough self adoring, anachronistic behavior to have all but inveterate teenyboppers swear .. People
3.0
Theres some tough action sequences and a personable cast including cameos from Tom Cruise and Brooke Shields in a movie that (almost) kick started a f .. Sky
1.5
Its glossy, slick and stylish, but boasts very little in the way of substance or excitement. Web Archive
4.5
Young Guns is an unexpectedly entertaining film. It puts new twists into the familiar terrain of the western.



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