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Young Guns Reviews
To my surprise, there’s a movie here that features a fair amount of grit.
| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 13, 2023
Too much pretty-boy posturing by several of its Brat Pack stars.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 4, 2023
... If you don’t take it too seriously it’s an entertaining romp.
| Aug 5, 2022
A grownup could die in this wasteland.
| Mar 25, 2019
''Young Guns'' is a very Dean-ish, sensitive delinquent melodrama disguised, for no good reason, as a western.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 25, 2019
The polite word for his kind of filmmaking is "classical.'' Another word is "trite."
| Mar 25, 2019
It's a western that shows both box-office calculation and respect for American history.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 25, 2019
There's some tough action sequences and a personable cast - including cameos from Tom Cruise and Brooke Shields - in a movie that (almost) kick-started a fading genre.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 25, 2019
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 were very young men. Big deal.
| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 25, 2019
It's glossy, slick and stylish, but boasts very little in the way of substance or excitement.
| Mar 25, 2019
Though it pales beside such antecedents as Arthur Penn's "The Left-Handed Gun" or Sam Peckinpah's "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid," it has a slick, smoky vigor.
| Mar 12, 2019
Young Guns is an unexpectedly entertaining film. It puts new twists into the familiar terrain of the western.
| Mar 12, 2019
The boys shoot, ride, flirt, get high on peyote and revel in enough self-adoring, anachronistic behavior to have all but inveterate teenyboppers swearing vengeance on the film's makers.
| Mar 4, 2019
Violent '80s Western with teen appeal.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 18, 2017
As Billy the Kid, Emilio Estevez is the nominal star here, but no one really shines.
| Mar 26, 2009
OK rehash of Old West villains, this time teaming them up in their early days.
Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 21, 2008
Good idea to cast the brat pack in a Western but this was badly realised and altogether a bit flat.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 4, 2008
Christopher Cain directed this western from a script by John Fusco, and on the whole seems much more comfortable with the scroungy and scatological dialogue than he does with the action sequences.
| Feb 4, 2008
Young Guns is simply not a very good movie--western or otherwise. Fusco's script provides little character development and muddies the narrative with some unlikely supporting characters.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 4, 2008
A cool Western for Gen X.
| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 4, 2007