Retroplex Cinema: Young Guns II (1990)

Welcome to Retroplex Cinema, a brand new feature here at TMIAJ where from time to time we will feature a classic flick, that you may or may not have heard of for all our readers to check out!  Today we go back twenty years to 1990.

Young Guns II:  Young Guns II was released August 1, 1990 and was a sequel to the wildly popular Young Guns from 1988.  Billy "The Kid" and his gang are on the run and  wanted by the law.  When "Doc" Scurlock and Chavez are captured, Billy and the rest of the Regulators has to save them. They escape and set south for Mexico. "Let's hire a thief to catch one", John S. Chisum said, so he paid Pat Garrett, one of Billy's former partners, $1000 for the killing of William H. Bonney aka Billy "The Kid"

The movie begins with the aging Brushy Bill Roberts narrating his story to a young historian. His claim? He claims that he is the famous outlaw William H. Bonney, alias Billy the Kid, who was supposedly shot and killed by Patrick Floyd Garrett in 1881. The old man gives a very convincing story on how he and Garrett, along with Arkansas Dave Rudabaugh, Chavez y Chavez, Doc Skurlock, and a few others led the outlaw life and avoided the law, as they were wanted men. Garrett, a friend of Billy's, was paid by John Chisum, a cattle king, to eliminate Billy the Kid. So, Garrett and Ashmun Upson set out on a journey to find Billy the Kid. As Billy "The Kid" and his gang are on the run and wanted by the law, "Doc" Scurlock and Chavez are captured, Billy and the rest of the Regulators set out to save them and when they do, they  escape and set south for Mexico.  Of course the rest is history as eventually Garret does catch up to Billy and as history has it, he kills Billy who refuses to be captured.  in this film version, the narrator Brushy Bill Roberts holds to his claim that he is indeed Billy The Kid.

One Day, I'm Gonna Run Around With Hobbits

 The film is a wild fun western as was the original with some great action and a fun cast including Emilio Estevez, Keifer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, and a young Viggo Mortenson (above).   It also includes one of the best on screen ass shots in cinema as you can see below.

The West Was Indeed Wild......

Overall, Young Guns II is a fun western and a decent sequel.  It also was the beginning of alot of great dumb fun action movies made in the 1990's.  If you haven't seen it check it out, it's worth a couple of hours of your time, and hell, even Bon Jovi has an appearance in it and he did the song for the soundtrack.

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Young Guns II Trailer


Young Guns 2 (Theatrical Trailer)
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