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The year is 1878, Lincoln county. John Tunstall, a British ranch owner, hires six rebellious boys as regulators to protect his ranch against the ruthless Santa Fe Ring. When Tunstall is killed in an ambush, the regulators, led by the wild-tempered Billy, declare war on the Ring.Part of what was touted as a late-1980s revival of Westerns (and you can see how long that lasted), this good-looking, empty-brained film was like a spurs-and-chaps version of a Joel Schumacher movie, filled with pretty faces, prettier imagery, and absolutely no new ideas. The idiotically grinning Emilio Estevez is cast as Billy the Kid, who slowly accumulates a gang of Brat Pack buddies (Lou Diamond Phillips, Kiefer Sutherland, Dermot Mulroney) and fashions them into a group of male models with six-guns. The action is confused and the script is trite, though Terence Stamp is intriguing as the old reprobate who helps the gang get its act together. Followed by an even worse sequel. –Marshall Fine
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March 19, 2008
#1
This is an utterly unhistorical movie. The real Billy the Kid was basically a loner who shunned gangs such as the “Regulators” bunch in this movie. One of the characters is a deputy marshal who throws away his badge and utters the usual lines about how the law is really on the side of evil. In this case, the ex-deputy joins the rest in a revelry of mindless violence all of which is committed in the name of a good cause, although it is hard to see how the violence did anything constructive.
Basically, this is just another empty action flick of mindless violence and mayhem with characters who have deluded themselves into thinking that they are the good guys. Worst of all, the movie basically portrays these juvenile delinquents as being on the right side. The idea that violence is an acceptable thing to engage in if you believe that you are in the right is just simply not the kind of message that Hollywood should be conveying to young people.
In summation, this is an awful movie.
March 19, 2008
#2
i loved this show in the late 80′s and i loved watching the season again, one thing about westerns you don’t know there old and i can’t wait season two and three come out.
March 19, 2008
#3
I’m not sure why Terrence Stamp kept shouting “Regulations!” Was it because the bad guys were breaking the regulations? Seems like a weird thing to yell. Sort of cowardly. Can someone explain that poor bit of writing to me, please?
Estevez really nails it here as an overacting, phony and flipped out Billy the Kid. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I never really thought he was convincing as Kid, but he had a way with a vest, right?
I wish maybe all the lead actors wore just vests without shirts on. I think that would have made a good movie a great movie. Anyhoo, this was probably the career zenith of L. Diamond P. I feel for him, he had an edge about him that I always felt was more of an affectation and couldn’t be backed up by him at all.
March 19, 2008
#4
In 1988, The Brat Pack had been getting around an awful lot. We all know that The Brat Pack had included Kiefer Sutherland, Sean Penn, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Emilio Esteves, Charlie Sheen, Rob Lowe, and Johnny Depp. Well, for Christopher Cain’s 1988 film entitled, YOUNG GUNS, three of the B.P. members, Emilio Esteves, Charlie Sheen, and Kiefer Sutherland had teamed up with Durmont Mulroney and Lou Diamond Phillips as BILLY, THE KID’s gang.
WILLIAM H. “Billy, The Kid” BONNEY (played by Emilio Esteves) is a vicious outlaw in 1800s west, who slowly assembles a gang, that consists of JOSIAH GORDON “DOC” SCURLOCK (played by Kiefer Sutherland), JOSE CHAVEZ Y CHAVEZ (played by Lou Diamond Phillips), RICHARD BREWER (played by Charlie Sheen, brother of Emilio Esteves), DIRTY STEVE STEPHENS (played by Durmont Mulroney), & CHARLIE BOWDRE (played by Casey Siemaszko) . This gang is then turned into a group of male models with six guns.
I had seen this film only once and that was years ago. So, I do not remember this movie. But I do remember that I did enjoy the film to a certain extent. Kiefer, Charlie, and Emilio were great, but to me, Kiefer will always be the star of each movie he is in, whether starring a the lead role or starring in the supporting role. This movie, from what I remember, which is very little, almost nothing, was pretty worth watching. I’ll have to buy a copy and watch it from beginning to end.
March 19, 2008
#5
this was made when the actors were all young and still trying to learn their trade. they had not. i do not know who wrote the story, but he ought not to lose his day job. all those who took part ought to learn about the genre, because they missed the whole point
do not buy this movie unless you like to spend almost two hours looking at nice horses and trying to ignore what is happening around them.