The wild west revisited

Rating: 5/10 (7 September 2012)

Mediocre bookend to the "Back to the Future" trilogy ties up the loose ends but the repetitive formula is looking tired, laboured by a contempt that usually follows such familiarity. Fox is this time transported back one-hundred years to the wild west where he passes himself off as 'Clint Eastwood' attempting to save Doc (Lloyd) from a bullet from the perennial badman Biff (Wilson).
Very distinguished cast co-stars Mary Steenburgen as Lloyd's love interest of the 1880's, sultry Elisabeth Shue again reprising her role as Fox's present-day GF and the likes of Richard A.Dysart, Matt Clark, Harry Carey, Jnr and Dub Taylor in minor roles; Lea Thompson also re-appears as Fox's present-day mother, and the woman who discovers him after his trademark knock-out shortly after arriving at his time-travel destination.
Now familiar plot seems to almost go through the motions in an attempt to sign-off the series where arguably, it needn't have been revisited. Filmed back-to-back with Part II, though the plot contrives the second sequel, there's really nothing new here and I've always felt as if I was just re-watching the original film with temporally adjusted sets and wardrobe. Might make for a well appointed box set, but it's just passable as a stand alone feature.