bartleby56

This is the Godfather 2 of The "Hot Shots" Duology, and like Coppola's grim and darkly pessimistic masterpiece, it may surpass the first film in it's dramatic reach and technical virtuosity. There's a tiny helicopter, Saddam Hussein making a late-night Dagwood sandwich...Lloyd Bridges doing a very plausible Joe Biden...a man being shot in the chest with a chicken...bitter-sweet memories of The Fleurvian Sea...the Crips are raiding the liquor store! This movie has it all.

Hot Shots! Part Deux is a movie that I go back to every couple of years, like Seven Samurai, Grand Illusion, The Wages of Fear, Sullivan's Travels, Gidget, The Discreet Charm of The Bourgeoise, The Philadelphia Story, or Buttman At Nudes A' Poppin'. Great movie.

Entertaining claptrap. Re-imagines the life of Henry McCarty in a way that includes some factual details of the actual man's life, but portrays him in a way that is completely and patently false, a pleasant and fabulous fable-ization of Henry McCarty/William H. Bonney, a nasty little rat. Were he alive today, he'd likely be moving meth from Juarez to El Paso while formulating plans to blow up his high school. Instead, he is portrayed here as an earnest victim of circumstances and teen hottie. I would urge anyone who watches this and has sympathetic feeling for this iteration of The Kid, to check out the history of the actual scoundrel's life.

The Soderburgh movie was pretty good, but this is just awful dreck. There seems to be a subtext that relates loosely to "to thine self be true", but the writing is so bad...I felt embarrassed for the many credible people involved with this. This is a terrible amovie.