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03/26/09
Young Guns (1988)
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Reviews Counted: 25
Fresh: 10
Rotten:15
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Westerns
Synopsis: British ranchowner John Tunstall (Terence Stamp) hires six young men to help him tend and guard his ranch. In addition he also teaches them to read and to be civilized, but soon Tunstall is... [More]
Starring: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen
Director: Christopher Cain
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Reviews for Young Guns
Top CriticOK rehash of Old West villains, this time teaming them up in their early days.
02/21/08
Good idea to cast the brat pack in a Western but this was badly realised and altogether a bit flat.
02/04/08
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.
02/04/08
Top CriticYoung 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.
02/04/08
Top CriticA cool Western for Gen X.
06/04/07
Little more than a flawed romp, but energetic and enjoyable, with sterling performances from Sutherland and Estevez.
06/24/06
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04/07/06
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10/14/05
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06/27/05
Far better western than the brat pack deserved
03/24/05
No review available.
01/30/05
The film doesn’t go far in reviving the Western film genre.
08/27/04
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02/27/04
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09/02/03
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08/22/03
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06/27/03
Young Guns is best watched in the playful, none-too-serious spirit in which it was made.
05/20/03
Top CriticThere are side pleasures to be found in going back and reliving the bad parts of the ‘80s. A rental of Young Guns lets us know that at least we’re out of Reaganomics and the movies it spawned.
04/18/03
Fails to either humanize Billy the Kid or justify his lore.
04/16/03
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