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I am a big fan of both films, so my reviews
would be a little on the bias side so let's take a look at some of the
other reviews around the net for the films.
Young Guns II (Film.com)"I'll
make you famous," Billy's smiling promise of immortality to the
people he waves his gun at, has become a joke rather than a threat.
And he says it so often that it loses all its shock value. Westerns
have become so rare that it seems almost churlish to look this gift
horse opera in the mouth. But it's never really satisfying as a
revisionist look at a legend, or as an old-fashioned, good-looking
outdoor adventure, or as a vehicle for young talent. For all its
fleeting good moments, it's never much more than a marketing device. (more)....
In "Young
Guns II, (Roger
Ebert) " I didn't even feel those
Freudian scars; the bad guys in this movie are simply misunderstood,
or took a wrong turn, or might benefit from counseling. There is no
sense that they are desperate for a reason, that they like committing
crimes, that they reject society for any better reason than that it
rejects them. There's a lot of bold string music in the film,
wide-open-spaces compositions, and a lot of horses and dust and
gunfire, and even the obligatory shot where the hero gets a bath from
the prostitute who understands him, but there isn't really a Western
here. There are moments when the actors themselves seem to be on to
something, but the screenplay doesn't give them the material to let us
know what it is. The old-timer narrates the film from time to time, in
a wheezy, ancient voice, recalling dim events from far ago. The events
themselves have about as much energy. (more...)
More:
Young Guns
efilmcritic,
DVD 1138, Washington
Post
Young Guns II
moviething.com,
cinema.de,
rolling
stone
