A typical example of a failed franchise operation. In fact, this is what happens when other directors, actors and other hooligans, plan to profit from a successful firstborn and attach themselves to his glory.
As I understood, the main idea of the film was to reveal the story of the emergence of the relationship between the main characters of the main part. Did it work? Technically, yes. Weak history of the beginning of friendship, the creators gathered in the first 15 minutes of viewing. As for the rest, it is an absolutely miserable sight. A purposeless, leaky and unrelated plot, which in a completely random style was glued together with scenes into one integral piece of the film.
The "set-up" story Hanks looks murky and strange. Even more ridiculous is that after that half of the film, the cunning character of Butch and the shooter Kid somehow escape from the stupid, half-deaf offended Hanks. The problem, by the way, is solved in the dumbest way. Or in any case, efforts, preparation, plot twisting, to solve this “problem” was applied, many times more than the result. But okay. An even more stupid decision was to weave an adventurer by nature, Butch Cassady family, obligations (one moment began to look more like melodrama than a western) and some imaginary desire to “fix” that changes in the main character’s wind in the style of a small and capricious girl. I rob, I quit, I rob a little, and let's do the robbery of the century! Fortunately, the story of Sundance was not distorted in the same illogical style. There was also a squalid attempt to integrate the stories of Joey Lefors (the one with the light straw hat) and Harvey Logan (the rebellious who is from the main part of the franchise). But in the first case, a person who was frightened by his meticulousness and purposefulness was exposed as an absolutely incompetent layman. And the second, Harvey Logan, who dared to question Butch's leadership, was made a coward. There were many more moments that drove this film lower and lower in impressions, but it is pointless to describe them. It was also possible to reveal the stories of Etta and Sheriff Bledsoe, but on the other hand, thank you to the authors for forgetting to do it.
He scored a couple of points for the film only for the fact that the style of robberies remained mainly as elegant as in the main part, but they were very few for the format of Western films, and the movie itself was more like a drama that grabs dozens of topics and reveals almost nothing. Absolutely do not recommend watching those who were delighted with the main part, or those who liked it so much that he decided to dig up this unfortunate sequel and decided to spend an hour and a half with benefit. It's just that you're going to fall apart.
4 out of 10