Young Guns II

Yoo hoo, I'll make you famous.

Young Guns II is directed by Geoff Murphy and written by John Fusco. It stars Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, Christian Slater, William Petersen, Alan Ruck, Vigo Mortensen and Balthazar Getty. Music is scored by Alan Silvestri, with contributions from Jon Bon Jovi, and cinematography is by Dean Semler.

Brushy Bill Roberts, old and crusty, claims to be Billy The Kid. Which is quite a claim considering the Kid was long thought to have been killed by Patrick Floyd Garrett in 1881. Roberts tells a listening historian that after the break up of the Tunstall Regulators, the remaining members hooked up with Garrett and Arkansas Dave Rudabaugh and still lived the outlaw life...

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Desperate and reckless young gunmen in New Mexico

"Brushy Bill" Roberts is 90 years-old in 1950 and claims to be Billy the Kid, shortly before his death. He narrates the events from 69 years earlier: Pat Garrett (William Petersen) is hired to track down Billy (Emilio Estevez) and his gang, which includes Chavez (Lou Diamond Phillips), Doc Scurlock (Keifer Sutherland), "Arkansas" Dave Rudabaugh (Christian Slater) and Henry William French (Alan Ruck).

This 1990 sequel to "Young Guns" from two years prior is almost as good and in some ways even better. For one thing, there's more rollicking Western action. Secondly, the 80's pop rock score of the former is replaced by excellent music from Alan Silvestri, which has some moving parts...