Young Guns II

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Summary: One Of The Best Westerns!
Review: This movie is one of the rare sequels that is just as good as the original if not better. Well acted and directed. Young Guns II is one of the ten best westerns ever!

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Summary: billy the kid
Review: this one is designed to fuel a billy the kid lives style story.it wont hurt the kids i dont think.lou diamond phillips,keefer sutherland and emilio estevez arein it.the first one was better.besides the first one,this is one of the best western flicks ever.a red head whore goes topless for a few.that part was the best.each of the actors did thier best in this and the first young guns.

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Summary: What a bargain....
Review: This sequel far surpassed the first one. At its asking price, it is a great deal. If you are a movie fanatic and you need to have a western in your DVD collection, this is the movie to add. The picture quality is great and the movie does look great in its widescreen picture. For those that are from New Mexico (as I am) you will appreciate the scenery of those New Mexico mountains and majestic skys.

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Summary: Young Guns 2 Review
Review: This was a great film that gave a finality to the orignal epic, Young Guns. A must have in a dvd library.

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Summary: When legend is better than fact, print the legend. . . .
Review: Well, this is a sequel no one really saw coming. It is actually a recounting of a pseudo history told by Ollie L. "Brushy Bill" Roberts. This is the alter-history that said that Pat Garrett did not actually kill Billy the Kid in cold blood in the Maxwell house, but he died of old age in 1950. Roberts maintained until he died, that he was in fact, William H. Bonney, a.k.a. Billy the Kid. Like the first film, historical accuracy is at best highly questionable. It is more like the American Dream to have lived happily ever after and not to have died, unarmed, in cold blood. Enough of the history debate, on to the movie.

This movie was supposed have taken place a year or so after the end of the first movie. "Doc Scurlock" was now a happily married school teacher in New York City. He was dragged out of his classroom to stand trial in Lincoln County for the deaths of those involved in the assassination of "John Tunstall," a cattleman who took a band of miscreants in and was a sort of father figure. Doc found himself in prison with "Chavez," (Lou Diamond Phillips) a Mexican Indian who was a fellow "Regulator." Rescued by Billy the Kid, (Emilio Estevez) they tried to evade the law. . .

As much as I enjoyed this movie, it was a downer. I think the character of Billy was more accurate to reality in this film. He was no where near as arrogant, he was introspective and rather adult for his young age. Jon Bon Jovi's soundtrack was a plus too.

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Summary: When legend is better than fact, print the legend. . . .
Review: Well, this is a sequel no one really saw coming. It is actually a recounting of a pseudo history told by Ollie L. "Brushy Bill" Roberts. This is the alter-history that said that Pat Garrett did not actually kill Billy the Kid in cold blood in the Maxwell house, but he died of old age in 1950. Roberts maintained until he died, that he was in fact, William H. Bonney, a.k.a. Billy the Kid. Like the first film, historical accuracy is at best highly questionable. It is more like the American Dream to have lived happily ever after and not to have died, unarmed, in cold blood. Enough of the history debate, on to the movie.

This movie was supposed have taken place a year or so after the end of the first movie. "Doc Scurlock" was now a happily married school teacher in New York City. He was dragged out of his classroom to stand trial in Lincoln County for the deaths of those involved in the assassination of "John Tunstall," a cattleman who took a band of miscreants in and was a sort of father figure. Doc found himself in prison with "Chavez," (Lou Diamond Phillips) a Mexican Indian who was a fellow "Regulator." Rescued by Billy the Kid, (Emilio Estevez) they tried to evade the law. . .

As much as I enjoyed this movie, it was a downer. I think the character of Billy was more accurate to reality in this film. He was no where near as arrogant, he was introspective and rather adult for his young age. Jon Bon Jovi's soundtrack was a plus too.

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Summary: An Era Lives On
Review: Western films have slowly deterierated in quality since the passing and changing of certain actors souch as John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. It is good to see a western that captures the same hearts as did earlier westerns. We need more movies like this one.

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Summary: Better than the 1st
Review: WOW! A sequel that finally lives up to the first one! The Cast......Keifer Sutherland, Emilio Estevez, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater......Need I say More. The action was on top of its game. And the Bon Jovi soundtrack is one of the best soundtracks I ever heard!

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Summary: GREAT SEQUAL
Review: Young Guns 2 is one of the best sequals to a movie I have seen in a long time. The continuing adventures of Billy the Kid and his new/old gang is one of the best Westerns to date and I don't watch to many weterns. The acting directing and action were great and it lives a mystery on if BILLY THE KID died or lived to a ripe old age( I personaly belive he lived to a ripe old age). But to the critics who don't believe lived but died and have old newspapers and articles tha t they say prove he died well I say don't believe everything you read I mean people are know to lie, and the truth is unless you were personly there we just don't know. I highly recomened this movie.

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Summary: What Goes Around, Comes Around
Review: Young Guns 2 is what Unforgiven had tried to be: an anti-violence western. While lacking in the historical accuracy area, Young Guns made up for it in providing a well acted entertaining moral.

Young Guns tells the story of William H. "Billy the Kid" Bonney and his gang of outlaws. They are wanted for their involvement in the Lincoln County Cattle Wars, which is historically accurate. The story does veer from reality in the personality of the Kid and his purposes for involvement. They make a romantic hero out of a murderer. Of course Hollywood has done this on a number of occasions (Mumia Abu Jamal).

There really is a moralistic tale to this story: he who lives by the sword, will die by it also. The movie does make a statement as to the question of the Kid's death. Some claim that Pat Garrett didn't actually kill him, that he let him go and the Kid lived on for many years before 'revealing' himself to a newspaper reporter. I don't think that either side can be substantiated.

This is definitely one of my favorite movies to catch whenever it's on tv. One of my favorite movie lines of all time comes from this movie. It's said when Kiefer Sutherland (Doc Scurlock) points a gun in Emilio Estevez's (Billy) face and says, "William H. Bonney, you are not a God." And the Kid replies, "Why don't cha pull the trigger an find out?"