Young Guns (1988)
Country: US
Technical: col 107m
Director: Christopher Cain
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Terence Stamp, Jack Palance
Synopsis:
A philanthropic rancher who takes in homeless young cowhands is gunned down by a cattle baron and, with the law prevented from acting, the boys are made into deputies. Their peculiar brand of rough justice, however, soon finds them enemies of both the army and the baron's men.
Review:
Hamfisted attempt to revive the Western with a bunch of Brat Pack actors. Unfortunately they signally fail to enthral, the only interesting character (Stamp's) is killed off early on, and only Sutherland shows anything like the charisma of the older generation so constantly evoked by the appearance of Palance, Brian Keith and Patrick Wayne. The storyline has been covered many times before, even with a similar aesthetic, by the likes of Peckinpah and Hill, and the rock score and 'contemporary' acting style are inappropriate. Those dark and dusty Westerns of the seventies were of course slower and more elegiac, and more realistic about bullets finding (or not finding) their mark; this violent popcorn fodder missed its target altogether.
Country: US
Technical: col 107m
Director: Christopher Cain
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Terence Stamp, Jack Palance
Synopsis:
A philanthropic rancher who takes in homeless young cowhands is gunned down by a cattle baron and, with the law prevented from acting, the boys are made into deputies. Their peculiar brand of rough justice, however, soon finds them enemies of both the army and the baron's men.
Review:
Hamfisted attempt to revive the Western with a bunch of Brat Pack actors. Unfortunately they signally fail to enthral, the only interesting character (Stamp's) is killed off early on, and only Sutherland shows anything like the charisma of the older generation so constantly evoked by the appearance of Palance, Brian Keith and Patrick Wayne. The storyline has been covered many times before, even with a similar aesthetic, by the likes of Peckinpah and Hill, and the rock score and 'contemporary' acting style are inappropriate. Those dark and dusty Westerns of the seventies were of course slower and more elegiac, and more realistic about bullets finding (or not finding) their mark; this violent popcorn fodder missed its target altogether.
Country: US
Technical: col 107m
Director: Christopher Cain
Cast: Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Terence Stamp, Jack Palance
Synopsis:
A philanthropic rancher who takes in homeless young cowhands is gunned down by a cattle baron and, with the law prevented from acting, the boys are made into deputies. Their peculiar brand of rough justice, however, soon finds them enemies of both the army and the baron's men.
Review:
Hamfisted attempt to revive the Western with a bunch of Brat Pack actors. Unfortunately they signally fail to enthral, the only interesting character (Stamp's) is killed off early on, and only Sutherland shows anything like the charisma of the older generation so constantly evoked by the appearance of Palance, Brian Keith and Patrick Wayne. The storyline has been covered many times before, even with a similar aesthetic, by the likes of Peckinpah and Hill, and the rock score and 'contemporary' acting style are inappropriate. Those dark and dusty Westerns of the seventies were of course slower and more elegiac, and more realistic about bullets finding (or not finding) their mark; this violent popcorn fodder missed its target altogether.