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The Kid

Suretone Pictures

Mimran Schur Pictures

United States of America

English

Ethan Hawke

Dane DeHaan

Jake Schur

Leila George

Adam Baldwin

Chris Pratt

Charlie Chappell

Clint Obenchain

Chris Bylsma

Chad Dashnaw

Ben Dickey

Tait Fletcher

Hawk D'Onofrio

Diana Navarrete

Samantha Zajarias

Vincent D'Onofrio

David Devereaux

Rachel Singer

Jenny Gabrielle

Howard Ferguson Jr.

Santo Militello

Keith Jardine

Dillon D. Jordan

Joseph Santos

Leslie Fleming-Mitchell

Joe Berryman

Douglas Bennett

Efrain Villa

Stafford Douglas

Merritt C. Glover

MorningStar Angeline

Jacob Browne

David Christian Welborn

Georgia Kirshenbaum

Cameron Thurlow

Carlos Amorin

Thomas Wingate

Danielle Haynes

Rose Cordova

Rachel de la Torre

Yvette Fazio-Delaney

Shannon Henderson Herrera

David Hight

Sarah Murrey

J. Nathan Simmons

Rip Lowe

Christian Dalton

Samantha Plont

James Watlington

Jennifer Schwalenberg

Raylin Sabo

Angelique Midthunder

Riva Cahn Thompson

Barbara Harris

Jonathan Bross

Rick Solano

James Cody Duncan

Daniel Carlton

Tom O'Connell

James Currier

Michael Chochol

Tarra D. Day

Svetlana Britt

Coll Anderson

Vikram Singh Lamba

Kerry Newberry

Shani Orona

Eric Hirsch

Leslie Bloome

Harland Espeset

Erik Keeling-Torrez

Bob Chefalas

Richard Brickell

Lucas Swallow

Adam Teschel

Carl Stubner

Jonah Loop

Jordan Warrack

Nick Myers

Adrian Segura

Daniella Duque

Shaun Garcia

Jed Carter

Nicholas R. Doyle

David Gendron

Samir M. Patel

Loren Telles

Rhys Gilman

Wesley Scott

Sarah Iha

Mack Melson

Cindy Serigatto

Angela M. DeNike

Cara Salmeri

Ryan Brown

Patrick Cicero

Ryan Price

Mary Towslee

George Brenner

Bonnie Masoner

Dustin DellaVecchia

Jake Dashnaw

Lane Luper

Daniel Baas

Paula Trujillo

David J. Higgins

Christian Mercuri

JoJo Chehebar

Sejal M. Patel

Lawrence Tolle

Gaurav Misra

Lena McIntyre

Mary Ellen Porto

Krissopher Chevannes

Ali Jazayeri

Nat Jencks

Ryan Collison

Julie Carr

Angela Chapin

Jordan Schur

Sam Maydew

Sara K. White

Nick Thurlow

David Mimran

Matthew J. Lloyd

Drew Louis

Mackenzie Oneil

Kellie Lockhart

Hank Herrera

Mara Herdmann

Luke T. Davis

Kingslea Bueltel

Edward McLoughlin

Nick Shuster

Ursula Coyote

David D. Baumann

Mary Vernieu

R. A. Arancio-Parrain

John Trapp

Dana Morris

Juergen Heinemann

Peter McGinn

I thought this was a fairly entertaining western. Hardly a classic, but better than many I have seen. It seems like they accurately followed some of the sequence of interactions between Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett, from what I have read. I mean, it is a feature film, not a documentary.

I will say that I think they tried to shoehorn the kid (the child, =as opposed to The Kid) a bit too much into the orbit of William Bonney. And some of his actions seem too old for the age he is portrayed as being. Maybe they should have made him a teenager and be done with it. Also, a few people referred to the young co-star as the Kid, so we had two "the kid"s. And I think his two voiceovers were unnecessary distractions.

I can't see myself watching this again anytime soon, but there was enough depth to it so I don't regret the time spent watching it.

There are a LOT of ways that this has been handled by Hollywood over the years. Pat the good guy, Pat the friend of Billy, Billy the good guy, Billy really lived. Most of the time, not matter what path it takes, there is an element of fun and a really decent story behind it.

This one a great cast, it takes a great story and it kind of sucks all the drama out of it. It makes it all a bit flat and, honestly, it should be thrilling. I'm not sure what went wrong here.

It's watchable...but it's not good. It's a flat an unambitious telling of the Billy the Kid story and done with all the creativity as a paint by numbers.

**_Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett seen through the eyes of an adolescent runaway_**

Fugitive teen siblings (Jake Schur and Leila George) hook up with Billy the Kid (Dane DeHaan) and his gang as he’s on the run from Pat Garrett (Ethan Hawke) in New Mexico, 1881. Chris Pratt has a side part as the dubious uncle of the teens.

“The Kid” (2019) was helmed by Vincent D'Onofrio (whom you might remember as the mentally troubled recruit at boot camp in “Full Metal Jacket”). It comes in the tradition of “One-Eyed Jacks,” which was originally a Billy the Kid yarn by Sam Peckinpah (with Stanley Kubrick set to direct) until Brando took over the project and changed the story. Peckinpah eventually got his script made into a movie a dozen years later, “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.”

This isn’t quite as notable as “One-Eyed Jack,” but it’s superior to Peckinpah’s lyrical film. The main characters are all effectively fleshed out and there’s a good scene where Garrett succinctly explains the Lincoln County War to the boy.

It ranks with the better Billy the Kid tales, although I prefer “Young Guns,” and “Old Henry.” It’s at least on par with “Young Guns II.”

It runs 1 hour, 40 minutes, and was shot at movie ranches in the Sante Fe area of north-central New Mexico.

GRADE: B

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