"They saved the best trip for last, but this time they may have gone too far"

Rating: Null/10 (4 June 2003)

The second film took over four whole years to come out, this film must have been REALLY desperate, since it was released just six months after part II. This film takes place exactly where the last one ended, with Doc unconscious in 1955. Doc decides to visit his favorite era of all, "The old west". Right when they're ready to leave, Marty screams, and finds out that Doc was killed back in 1885 by Bufford (Mad Dog) Tannen, who was a brutal, outspoken gunman who killed 12 men. I liked this conclusion better than part I, but not as well as part II. There's no "Johnny be good". There's great action, and grim gun fighting. There's less comedy here than in Part I and II. Doc falls for school teacher, Clara Clayton (Mary Steenburgen) and isn't so sure he wants to go back in time after all. In fact he saves her, when her horse is about to fall off a mountain, and altered history! The film runs 118 minutes, but seems shorter. I like movies where runty people square off against grim, unstoppable bad guys, and fortunately there's more of that than in the other BTTF movies. Bufford even has some knucklehead in his blood, and says equally funny, stupid things like "I'm gonna hunt ya down like a duck." another good quote, Doc saying he read 20, 000 leagues under the sea as a boy when it was recently published back then. The climax at the end is more suspenseful and would be more scary to do than before. The film finally comes to a conclusion, and we're finally back in the real world, where it seems like years they'd been gone, when it was only part of a day. Maybe you could tell me what happens, but I was dissapointed how I, but maybe you, found out wheteher Doc never came back and stayed in 1885, or took Clara to 1985 and stayed there.