Young Guns
Movie Review
1988 | R
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Damn my Kiefer Sutherland obsession—if it wasn’t for him, I would never have sat through this dreck. (And if it wasn’t for him, my female relatives wouldn’t have sat through this dreck some seventeen years ago, when I was old enough to figure out how to get past my mother’s viewing restrictions by hiding in the hallway to watch the TV, but still young enough to have years and years of nightmares thanks to a ten-second clip of Terry O’Quinn eating lead from a machine gun. But that’s another story.) I didn’t have high expectations for this; I just wanted some decent eye candy and some decent gunplay. Sadly, this flick fails to deliver on either count—with the exception of Kiefer Sutherland, who brings the hotness and turns in an excellent performance that lifts the film from no-star to one-star territory. (Props to Terry O’Quinn, too, who seems entirely incapable of not doing the best job possible with whatever roles he’s given.) Despite his admirable efforts — and despite a not-bad storyline that could certainly have been fleshed out into a good movie, if anyone had bothered to do so—Young Guns comes off as an incoherent and cheaply-made mess. The stars might be young and hot (well, they were at the time—as if anyone can look at Charlie Sheen these days and not think “webcam balls!”), but that alone won’t carry a film. If you’re a Kiefer Sutherland fan, check out YouTube and Google for film clips and screenshots; it’s not worth sitting through the whole thing just for him.
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