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Young Guns is a 1988 American Western action film directed and produced by Christopher Cain and written by John Fusco. The film depicts a heavily fictionalized version of the actions of Billy the Kid and the Regulators during the Lincoln County War, in New Mexico in 1877–78. It stars Emilio Estevez as Billy, and Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Estevez's brother Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, and Casey…
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Western, like Bitcoin, was pronounced dead many times. It happened quite a lot in 1980s, despite that decade spawning something quite rare in the history of a genre - *Young Guns*, 1988 film directed by Christopher Cain, which was successful enough to spawn big budget sequel. Script by John Fusco is based on real events related to Lincoln County War, one of the most violent episodes in the history of Wild West, whic…More
A lot of Fun. It was fairly well done, but does fall into the Western cliche, with our anti-hero not being fully developed as one particular character. The character goes from a loyal person avenging the death of his father figure to homicidal killer (not what his father figure taught). The relationship between the main characters is however developed nicely, and the actors do excellent jobs making the characters re…More
