Perfect cast and a good story

hyped garbage

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

In my other IMDb reviews I have lamented several things which broadly fall into the same two categories of complaint: 1. That because of the marketing practises of the industry, TV is slowly but surely producing a higher quality of product than theatrical film; and 2. They don't make em like they used to.Broadly, the sequel (and the 1988 original) fall into the second category. Effortlessly brilliant. So many many attempts at telling the Billy The Kid story using the star power of a single lone actor (Paul Newman comes to mind) and here someone had the wit to take a handful of actors at their historical peak (Lou Diamond Phillips never looked so good) and just made the thing work.Notes: 1. As good as or better than the first, because, lacking the story of how Billy "became" Billy, the writers worked harder to keep things moving. And it shows.2. Great soundtrack, better than the first 3. William Petersen in another solid portrayal, this before the success of CSI (his idea!) make him wealthy enough for early retirement 4. Great idea to incorporate in the opening shot the notion that Billy (and indeed Jesse James) survived to a ripe old age. There are individuals who have devoted their whole lives to researching this topic and their efforts are impressive, if under-reported.

So sings Jon Bon Jovi who was hired to sing the sound track to the original 1988 'Young Guns' film. Perhaps 'Blaze of Glory' shouldn't really have been mentioned in the title, as it does give more than a clue as to the cast's fate.Blaze of Glory is set a few years after the 'young guns'' first outing. Since we last saw them, Billy the Kid has killed yet more people (but they probably deserve d it, so we still like him anyway) and stolen yet more cattle (I guess we have to assume that they deserved in, too). So, naturally, he's even more wanted by the law than the last time we saw him. But it's not all bad news for him – he's got a new posse and, in the first third of the film, he's got his two former pals, Doc Hollywood and Chavez back in tow.However, just when our little Billy's happily getting reacquainted with his mates, his former friend Pat Garrett only decides to accept a massive pay-off to bring in the band of outlaws. So Billy finds himself on the run again (to the grinding guitar sound of Jon Bon Jovi – some might say that makes his situation even worse).Basically, Young Guns II: Blaze of Glory, is more of the same. Now, that could have been a bad thing if the first film had been pretty dull, yet, actually it's no bad thing – assuming you liked the first instalment. There's nothing particularly new here. The plot is almost identical, just with a few new baddies and a few new members of Billy's gang. There is a kind of sub-plot involving the (almost) modern day where a man claims he actually was Billy the Kid and a journalist is trying to deduce whether or not he's telling the truth, but that probably could have been left on the cutting room floor if the producers had been pushed for time.If you liked the original, you'll probably like this, too. It's definitely more of the same and is a fun *modern* cowboy romp. If you don't like cowboy films in general, this one probably won't win you over.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

This movie can't even be classified as a "Western". Emilio Estevez was not convincing. Then, we were subjected to viewing his naked butt. The guy is just not a good actor...Then, someone is always calling after him...."Beellaaay...Beellaaay..." Not, Billy; Beellaaay. Puhleeze. Then, there's the part where Lou Diamond Phillips' character gets stabbed right through his forearm. Can you imagine the pain and bone breakage associated with such an injury? The severed nerves, tendons..the inevitable infection? Nope. The knife was simply pulled out without so much as a wince. Then, he's just fine in the next scene, as if nothing had happened. Nobody was convincing in this film. It just seemed like a bunch of short Hollywood types hamming it up.

The perfect movie to watch as a kid and understand the "buddy" term in pop culture, well, in Western.The action is great but the movie's best feature is it's fast pace. The events are all extremely entertaining if you really get into the plot. You know, it deals with the good against the bad guys.The acting is also pretty good specially from Lou Diamond Phillips and Emilio Estevez. Both were my childhood heroes! Well there's not much to say about the movie except that it deals with good against evil and the Western problematics that have to be solved with plenty of guns!Watch it in order to understand the early 90's way of film making.