... 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

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

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

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

As Billy the Kid, Emilio Estevez is the nominal star here, but no one really shines.

| Mar 26, 2009

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

Little more than a flawed romp, but energetic and enjoyable, with sterling performances from Sutherland and Estevez.

| Jun 24, 2006

Young Guns is best watched in the playful, none-too-serious spirit in which it was made.

| May 20, 2003

They behave as if our adoration were their birthright.

| Jan 1, 2000