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The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Blistering performances.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

When people think of cowboys, they think John Wayne and Clint Eastwood. Any cowboy movie that does not have them has some other tough, rugged, mean-looking dude as the star and as co-stars. Young Guns breaks that rule and is still able to come out a fantastic western. I'm not just saying this because it was the first western I'd seen, I really do think this is one of the very best.Young Guns is pretty much the Brat Pack in the old west. Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney and Casey Siemazko play real life gunslingers: Billy the Kid, Doc Scurlock, Chavez Chavez, Dick Brewer, Steve Stephens, and Charley Bowdre. This is loosely based on a true story when ranch owner, John Tunstall (Stamp) takes the men (known as Regulators) under his wing to educate them and get them to protect his ranch. When crooked Murphy (Palance) murders Tunstall, the Regulators want revenge and justice to be done, but Billy the Kid's insanity causes a massive manhunt where the young men may not survive.Our leading actors may not be mean-looking, but they do provide a sense of brutality and great acting. Emilio Estevez looks like a child, but he delivers an Oscar-worthy role as the crazy Kid. Kiefer Sutherland plays a rare good guy who also does a great job. I'm surprised he didn't get many good guy roles after this. Casting directors probably disagree with me. Dermot Mulroney is the closest to a John Wayne/Clint Eastwood character. "Dirty" Steve Stephens chews tobacco and is a filthy slob. Phillips and Siemazko do the most emotionally driven characters that give the heart and seriousness that adds dimensions to this. That is what I love about this. Young Guns is a character-driven movie with a solid plot.

I will firstly admit that I did not pay the fullest attention to this film while it was on, but I did understand everything going on, and I knew it was going to bit of an average film anyway, but still one I was interested in because of the all-star cast, from director Christopher Cain (The Next Karate Kid). Basically, set in 1878 in New Mexico, young gun men are picked up on the road by John Tunstall (Terence Stamp) to work on his ranch, but they also learn to read and be civilised, but competitive cattle seller and rich rancher Lawrence G. Murphy (Jack Palance) is hanging around and acting suspiciously. Tunstall is shot by Murphy's men during a scuffle, because Sheriff Brady (Daniel 'Danny' Kamin) is one of the gang Justice Wilson (Victor Izay) can't do anything about the situation, but attorney Alex McSween (Lost's Terry O'Quinn) persuades him to recruit the young men as deputies and give them the warrants to arrest the murderers. The young men: William H. Bonney (Emilio Estevez), who later becomes the infamous 'Billy the Kid', Josiah Gordon 'Doc' Scurlock (Kiefer Sutherland), 'Jose' Chavez y Chavez (Lou Diamond Phillips), Richard 'Dick' Brewer (Charlie Sheen), Dirty Steve Stephens (Dermot Mulroney) and Charles 'Charley' Bowdre (Casey Siemaszko), do not intend to arrest the killers though, they just want to shoot them. After Dick and one of the others is killed the five remaining young gun men have the final showdown with Murphy and his gang, and Billy of course went on to become an outlaw and was eventually shot dead by Patrick Floyd 'Pat' Garrett (Patrick Wayne). Also starring Sharon Thomas Cain as Susan McSween, Brian Keith as Buckshot Roberts and Cody Palance, Jack's son as Baker. The cast all do their parts fine, especially Esteves in the leading role of the well known gunslinger, I may not have followed the story in full, but the action sequences are good to watch with all the guns firing and some blood, a not bad western. Worth watching!

Young Guns is directed by Christopher Cain and written by John Fusco. It stars Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Charlie Sheen, Dermot Mulroney, Casey Siemaszko, Terry O'Quinn, Jack Palance and Terence Stamp. Music is by Brian Banks and Anthony Marinelli and cinematography is by Dean Semler.Film is a telling of Billy the Kid's part in the Lincoln County War in New Mexico 1878. Plot sees the murder of John Tunstall send Billy and the rest of the Tunstall Regulators on a mission to avenge his murder.It ain't easy having pals.Often derided by Western movie purists as a sort of MTV Western made to showcase the various talents of the then Hollywood Brat Pack of Estevez, Sheen, Sutherland et al, Young Guns is actually a far more entertaining picture than some critical assessments suggest it is. It also has some rock solid Western history footings holding it up, yes it's far from accurate in various scenarios, age of characters and numbers in gangs etc, but the core story of the Lincoln County War is there. A massive success at the box office and spawning an equally successful sequel in 1990, Young Guns zips along at pace, contains high energy action sequences and provides plenty of quotable dialogue. Best of all, though, it doesn't take itself seriously, it wants to be a rooting-tooting Western of fun endeavours, if viewed on those terms it's an absolute winner, especially since the cast are playing it that way.Alex, if you stay they're gonna kill you. And then I'm gonna have to go around and kill all the guys who killed you. That's a lot of killing.Estevez is terrific as The Kid, blending boyish arrogance with fearless rage, a fun and scary character who is easy to get on the saddle with. Elsewhere it's a mixed bag, but apart from the disappointing Sheen, the casting decisions sit well and if you talk to ten different Young Guns fans you will most likely get a number of different answers come back as to who is their favourite Regulator (mine is Dirty Steve played by Mulroney if you are wondering?). O'Quinn is spot on as Alex McSween, Stamp adds classical tones to the ill fated John Tunstall and Palance is a neat fit as villain Lawrence Murphy. Nice to see Brian Keith get a cameo as a larger than life bounty hunter as well. Semler's photography and Cain's filming techniques are a bit too anachronistic at times and the Banks/Marinelli score too modern an accompaniment on occasions. But film rounds out as a nifty bit of Oater play for Gen X and showed that as the 1990s approached there was still love for this greatest of genres. 7.5/10

Really good story on the rise of Billy the Kid and his fellow cohorts. The historical accuracy of the movie probably isn't perfect but if you're not looking for a history channel version of his story then the story is perfectly fine and still hits on a lot of the major points in Billy the Kid and his problems with the Murphy gang.The cast consists of a who's who of young actors in the late '80s with Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland and Lou Diamond Phillips.If you're looking for a fun western then this is a movie for you. Good shootout scenes and Estevez plays the role of his career as Billy. Much better done then any other movie about Billy's life.