Why is young guns rated r

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What parents need to know Parents need to know that Young Guns is a Western with a lot of gun violence, mostly without blood and gore, but a few scenes do show blood spatter and dripping from injuries. Continue reading Show less. Stay up to date on new reviews. Get full reviews, ratings, and advice delivered weekly to your inbox. User Reviews Parents say Kids say. Parent Written by dnava December 12, Report this review.

Adult Written by Ozzmaiden May 8, Just like an old western. Continue reading. Kid, 11 years old March 7, Teen, 16 years old Written by Gamer May 29, With his friends backing him up, William delivers his own personal brand of justice, acting as judge, jury and executioner all with one pull of the trigger. News of his notorious actions spreads wide and far and soon the name of "Billie the Kid" becomes legendary. Director: Christopher Cain. Rating: R. Runtime: min. See All Details and Credits.

Watch Now. Buy on. Stream On. Critic Reviews. Janet Maslin. Young Guns is best watched in the playful, none-too-serious spirit in which it was made. Though the film concentrates reverentially on its young stars, it also includes good performances from a few grown-ups, notably Terry O'Quinn as a lawyer and Jack Palance as the story's wild-eyed villain. Read full review.

Jay Scott. The movie blows through the Brat Pack smoke screen - it is superior to Colors in that regard - to reveal the troubled, lonely and sometimes crazy males behind the macho, misogynist posturing of men in groups.

You couldn't find a nicer bunch of killers. Llyod Sachs. Considering how tidy and self-aware most such Hollywood projects are, any movie that can give Phillips' Mexican-Indian a monologue in which he painfully recounts the massacre only he survived and then blithely rejoices in idiot gunfire is a movie you have to respect.

Dave Kehr. Billy's burning, self-destructive energy is about all Young Guns has going for it-the suicidal kicks James Dean found in chickie races are here transposed to six-gun shoot-outs, filmed in a slow-motion process that strives vainly to evoke Sam Peckinpah.

Staff Not Credited. Fusco's script provides little character development and muddies the narrative with some unlikely supporting characters. Still, it proved to be popular enough to lead to a television spinoff and a sequel in Jay Carr. Fusco's script undercuts whatever freshness it may have brought to its view of Billy the Kid with a steady stream of howlers, most of which involve Kiefer Sutherland, as the sensitive member of the gang.

Jonathan Rosenbaum. Full of odd notions and interludes, the movie never really comes together, but fitfully suggests a cross between Boys Town and Greaser's Palace. User Score. Write a Review. User Reviews. Tagirix Jul 29, Several obscenities and profanities; murder, revenge, graphic violence and knife fighting; superstitious Indian beliefs; prostitution and rear female nudity; and, the excessive use of alcohol.

An old-timer, claiming to be Billy the Kid and wanting the pardon that was promised to him 70 years earlier, begins narrating to a journalist this flashback tale…. Bonney, a. The Kid agrees in exchange for a full pardon, but upon learning that the prosecuting attorney wants him dead, changes his mind and, guns blazing, frees the jailed outlaws. Billy decides to lead his surviving cronies across the border to Mexico, but fellow desperado Pat Garrett drops out of the gang.

Their first stop on the trail is to collect a debt from Chisolm, a wealthy, evil cattle baron, whose men they murder when he refuses to pay up.