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Genres: ActionThrillerSci
Starring: Adam Beach, Chris Browning, Daniel Craig, Clancy Brown, Sam Rockwell, Keith Carradine, Paul Dano
Director(s): Jon Favreau
Available Quality: Hi Def
Country: USA
Year: 2011
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, Hi Def
IMDB Rating: 6.2 out of 10 (63354 votes)
The Old West.. where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror from beyond our world. 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution dont welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Ford). Its a town that lives in fear. But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known. Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where hes been...
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Visitors Review
(25 May 2012)
the best cowboys meets aliens movie ever
i am looking forward to buying the dvd and watching at it as many times as i can, i cannot wait until it is out. wow!
(24 May 2012)
Pretty weak film
I have always liked a good western. I have always liked a good alien movie. When I first saw this movie was coming out, I thought there could be no better premise for a film.But even though it had an all star production team and a strong cast, I think this film fell flat with all it tried to do.I am not going to go into what the film was supposed to do, but I think it failed as a western film, it failed as an alien film and probably was one of the biggest disappointments of the year.I rarely, if ever recommend NOT to purchase an item. But you may wanna wait until it comes out on TV.
cgrace1-235-793302 (21 May 2012)
Disappointment
I watched previews and was excited to see this movie,a movie that couldhave been really funny and wild. This is not a movie anyone should betaking seriously. It's was very disappointing for me. It could havebeen done better.I like the actors and I thought some did a pretty goodjob. I thought there were some good actions scenes. I did watch theentire movie and gave it a chance, but I started to lose interest abouthalf way through and the excitement never returned. I honestly wastrying to stay awake! It's just a mediocre genre effort that could havereached greater heights if somebody cared more about the charactersthan the goofy premise, or at least cared enough about the goofypremise. Overall, this movie SUCKED!!!!!!!!!!
(21 May 2012)
It's Different! And Very Enjoyable!
This review is from: Cowboys & Aliens (Extended Version) (Amazon Instant Video) So glad to have found this film and read the reviews. It is not what I had expected - it was much much better. This is a truly original story line, and completely entertaining. Hope you take the time to watch it!
Paul Haakonsen (21 May 2012)
Guns and lasers blazing...
Having seen the trailers, I was really looking forward to this movie.And now that I have seen it, I can honestly say that I wasn'tdisappointed. However, the concept of cowboys and aliens throwntogether into one pot still does seem a bit odd to me.The story in "Cowboys & Aliens" is pretty easy to follow; Jake Lonerganfinds himself without his memory and a pretty neat-looking braceletaround his wrist. Thrown into a desperate fight against a far superiorspecies, Jake, the people of Absolution and the native Americans findthemselves in a showdown for supremacy.I must admit that the story is fairly much on the 'no-brainer' side ofthe storyboard. This is the type of movie where you can switch off yourbrain and just run on the adrenaline alone. There is action from thestart of the movie and right up to the end of it. The fight scenes werereally nice to look at, lots of guns blazing (both archaic and futureguns), explosions and in-your-face action scenes.The movie is making good use of make-up effects and CGI effects. Thealiens look awesome, and they look so life-like that it is bordering onbeing too real. Thumbs way up for the effects team on "Cowboys &Aliens", they sure did a great job.As for the cast, then I think they got a good group of people togetherfor the movie. And I must say that Daniel Craig (playing Jake Lonergan)is more cut out for something like this, rather than playing JamesBond. And it was really good to see Harrison Ford (playing WoodrowDolarhyde) in this movie. He is in top shape here and putting on areally good performance, both in acting and action scenes."Cowboys & Aliens" is a good movie for an evening of mindless actionentertainment. If not for the action sequences, then for the effectsand CGI. Compared to some of the recent movies that make heavy use ofCGI effects, "Cowboys & Aliens" came off as more than just a shallowstory trying to stay afloat by effects alone.
rvincent440 (20 May 2012)
WTF is up with all these stupid "alien" movies?!
Oh by the way, if you want to see a truly horrible action sequenceseemingly inspired by direct-to-video type conceptualizing but done onmillions of wasted dollars, limited brain-cells, and even more limitedcreativity, you can watch Daniel Craig chase down a flying alien space-ship going about 200 miles an hour ON A HORSE! Not only that but thenhe jumps off the horse onto the flying space-ship, which is not slowingdown, is out of control and in the process of crashing, in order torescue the damsel in distress who is somehow stuck to the bottom of thespace-ship. Warning! This is not a comedy! This movie actually takesitself seriously but is too stupid to be realistic and too dumb to knowhow funny it would be if it wasn't so pathetically boring, preachy andself-righteous. You can just feel John Favreau's fat smiling smarmyface with his overfed rosy cheeks adorning his inflated head (whichseems to get fatter and bigger with the increasing stupidity of hismovies) plastered all over the cockroach mentality of this stolenused-up garbage which is nothing more than the left-over crumbs frommuch better western movies. I wonder how many "special favours" he hadto perform on his knees to get this cow-pie baked and force-fed tomovie audiences who by now, I'm sure, are sick of having Hollywoodproducers unnaturally inserting their unattractive attributes into theproductions they finance by trying (and failing more miserably thanthey probably fail when trying to bed their wives) to glorifythemselves through the repulsively obnoxious, anti-charismatic,self-serving flatulent blow- hearts of characters such as Tony Stark in"IRON MAN" and now the abusive do-or-die financially dictatorialhick-tyrant of Woodrow Dollarhyde played by Harrison Ford in "COWBOYS &ALIENS" who terrorizes a town he runs, brutalizes his workers, and yetis somehow portrayed as excusable and even sympathetic because.....youguessed it, he has money and keeps the financially destitutetownspeople in bondage to him more ruthlessly than a drug pusherdangling smack over the heads of the addicts he has created with histrade. I don't see how anyone could sit through this crap, let alonepay for it, unless you believe the merit of someone's character dependson how rich they are. John Favreau, the director, is getting paid tomake it. What am I getting out of it? More disheartening than the lackof answers to the previous question is the clear indication thatperhaps even greater big-budget box-office embarrassments comparable tothis movie are headed our way like a swarm of alien locusts who,relentlessly out to feed off our hard-earned dollars, are banking onthe false-assumption they hope they've created in us by now that ifwe're paying for it there must be something of worth to be gotten outof it. Sadly, this is not true. Which is why I will be watching theupcoming "BATTLESHIP", "ATTACK THE BLOCK", "THE DARKEST HOUR", and "THETHING"(the remake(yawn)), on the net for free like I did "COWBOYS &INDIANS" long before I'll take a chance wasting my time and moneypaying to see what has become a redundant pattern of assaults onaudiences by inept Hollywood "professionals" who no longer care aboutdelivering a product worthy of money or the people who spend it. I'drather watch a bootleg copy of "THE DARKEST HOUR" on the net than bestuck in a theatre watching "WANTED" and helplessly wondering what thef**k fat little oinker director Timur Bekmambotov had done to get awaywith pulling the s**t out of his head so he could sell thehalf-digested peanuts off as original ideas.
(15 May 2012)
Cowboys ..indians and aliens.......great stuff
Another movie to add to my Collection of Alien invasions. There 's not too manyout there worthy of a yearly watch, but this one has a bit of everything.You have quality in the direction, acting, scenery and a pretty good story also.And having seen a lot of cowboys and indian movies in the 50-60's (lots on TV),i really like the way the indians were portrayed in this movie. They are shownas warriors and not weaklings.Anyway...good effects...aliens are nasty little beast with extra long fingernails..you'll know what i mean once you see the movie.A Keeper.
george.schmidt (15 May 2012)
Cosmic oater and the geeky pleasure of seeing James Bond & Indiana Jones kicking alien ass!
COWBOYS & ALIENS (2011) *** Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde,San Rockwell, Paul Dano, Adam Beach, Clancy Brown, Walton Goggins, NoahRinger. Cosmic oater set in the American Old West circa 1873 Arizona,where an amnesiac cowboy (Craig exuding a McQueenian stoic vibe)awakens in the desert of a dying town when aliens invade, kidnappingits citizenry, forcing him to regain his memory in the process of arescue posse with a motley crusading group including an ex Civil Warcolonel/cattle rancher (Ford at his gruff best) and a mysterious beauty(the beguiling Wilde). Director Jon Favreau mixes all the popcorn crowdguilty pleasure with his comic book adaptation of Scott MitchellRosenberg's graphic novel in spite of six scribes involvement, the filmcomes on like gangbusters and is an enjoyable B-movie with A productionthanks to the cool visuals and particularly Matthew Libatique's sweetcinematography. And the geeky pleasure of seeing James Bond & IndianaJones kicking alien ass!
daniel cross (15 May 2012)
The Opinion Hole: Cowboys and Aliens: The Film With No Soul
When I first heard of this film, I saw the teaser trailer. The premisewas outstanding, for me my two favourite popular genres:science-fiction pulp and classic westerns would at last be joinedforever in the glorifying summer blockbuster stable. To be honest, Ihad to ask myself 'Is this real, can it be as good as it promises?'Genre collisions are a very rare and mystifying aspect of filmmaking,take a few good examples: Alien (horror and science-fiction), Aliens(science-fiction, horror, action), Who Framed Roger Rabbit? (animation,live-action and film noir) and a more relevant example: Serenity, theFirefly feature length spin off which is questionably to best livingproof of a 'Western in Space' done right.In Joss Whedon's brilliant swansong to his criminally under-rated TVseries, we follow a ragtag group of thrown-togethers as they run andgun their way through the worst Mos Eisley towns this side of the OuterRim. You watched that film and not only could you be amazed at thetechnology, the spaceships, the pristine, and the staple sci-figovernment conspiracy parts, but the characters dressed, acted, andwere as lovable as John Wayne, Clint Eastwood and Han Solo (yes, Solo aspace cowboy if there ever was one.) This brings me neatly to thecrutch of the review: Cowboys and Aliens, from Iron Man director JohnFavreau. The film stars Daniel Craig, Olivia Wilde and Harrison Ford Âwho still brings back memories of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of theCrystal Skull.*[1] In the beginning, Jake Lonergan (Craig) has amnesia.He wakes up, who he is? We don't know. He has a strange, steampunk-esque device strapped to his wrist. Three crooks try to rob him,he quickly subdues them. And here is the first overlying problem of thefilm. It is never established exactly how Lonergan is able to fightthem off so effortlessly, leaving us with a person who simply seems nothave to worry, nor care about overcoming anything, if he is able tocombat three armed drifters after being unconscious. 007 is cool anddetached, this character is a Terminator. A machine. He heads to thenearest town.Moving along, Lonergan ends up in jail because he is recognised by thesheriff in Absolution as wanted outlaw. The titular aliens attack thetown during the night, where many people are abducted, including Percythe son of ruthless cattleman Colonel Woodrow Dolarhyde (Ford). IfLonergan is a Terminator, Dolarhyde is Yosemite Sam  gruff,cantankerous, and unlikeable. These characters are so underwhelming andlacking in unique development that it cements the film as having allthe elements of TV movie with the added sheen of 'star power'. Isuppose you could defend the movie, arguing 'Well, it has the conceitof a B-Movie, the premise I the same; surely you can say it's alrightthat the characters are flat and boring.' Consider 1996's IndependenceDay which, for a better word, is the 'ultimate B-Movie'. It is aself-contradicting title; surely B-Movies aren't summer blockbustermaterial? But then why did ID4 make nearly six times the money thatCowboys and Aliens did? Possibly because it used the cinematic formatto increase the scope and scale and show audiences what an alieninvasion could look like and make it exciting. It also had some likablecharacterisation in Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum's family lives.Something Cowboys and Aliens failed to do.After a lovely Western journey cross country, with formulaic moments ofrest and character development (Like the church scene in Saving PrivateRyan except on rapid-fire back-story mode), the Lonergan/Dolarhydeparty arrive at their destination. The alien's base of operations is agoldmine. Yes. The aliens have travelled all this way, to mine ourgold. Why? To power their machines. Okay, so you have a function, whatis the reason? Why do they need to power their machines, what machinesare they and why does gold power them. It's cheat, presenting a problemto overcome; it's like building a brick wall for a character to climbover. The wall is just there, it doesn't need explaining but if theydon't get to the other side then, well, the climax won't be satisfying!And they have been abducting humans to carry out experiments on them,which is fair enough. Better than the gold subplot. Still reeks of badB-Movie plotting.The film ends with Ella (Wilde) actually dying to save the kidnappedhumans, after Lonergan regains his memory of his 'true love', perhapsElla served her purpose and she had to take her rightful place at beingdead. Lonergan really is a Terminator, incapable of love or commitmentto women. He ends the movie, riding off into the sunset. Dolarhyderedeems himself and becomes the character I wish Ford played from thebeginning.A film like Cowboys and Alien looks nice, it has many recognisablefaces, the special effects are so-so and it should be defendable by the'mindless' summer blockbuster theory. However, this film which looksamazing has, underneath, nothing. No memorable moments, any standoutset pieces. It's all been done better and done before. This film has nosoul. And it's really hard to say that about a movie. I will say ittried; it tried to appeal to everyone, to be post-modern and to be thenext big franchise. But it failed because it was too formulaic anddidn't try anything new.*** [1] Note: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, is aterrible film, because it attempts to disprove the last three films'religious pathos as mumbo jumbo, forcing onto the audience theoverruling concept of pan dimensional 'aliens' as being responsible foreverything in history that has supernatural elements  which goesagainst everything the Indiana Jones films stood for.
(14 May 2012)
Oh Hum, Too Much CGI
Jake Lonergan (Craig) wakes up in the desert, discovers he is woundedand has no idea what happened or who he is. He has a unique bracelet onhis left wrist and has no idea what it is and can't get it off. Laterhe discovers Aliens from another world come around and kill everythingin sight. Why? And, what do they want from earth?I think the movie, back in the day with Gene Autry, in the PhantomEmpire (Martians were headquartered in a mountain if memory serves) wasbetter. And, one could consider it to have been the first Cowboy andAliens movie. No CGI, but better. You get the flavor of a western for about 10-minutes and then the CGIwith Aliens takes over and oh, hum  this is going to be likeTransformers ..a so-so simple story, and a lot of CGI. You are notgoing to see a lot of acting in here. You will see and hear a lot ofexplosions, Alien planes flying in and around everything blowing thingsup and people running, running, running. Wait, wait, they have Indiansin here too. Almost forgot. Can't have a western without Indians, nowcan we?I noticed they had about 6-screenwriters for this and I wonder whatthey all did. It's a mystery. Now, what would have helped? Some goodlines, a little humor injected here and there and more dialogue withall these big stars. Hey, they had about 6-screenwriters and they didnothing along these lines. Nothing. The other big mystery was why did the Aliens attach the bracelet ontoJake. If there was an explanation for that I missed it. Yes, thebracelet was a weapon of sorts. So why would Aliens put a weapon onJake and was that intentional or one of those Alien Ooops moments? Hey,we all have them.The Aliens, laid off from the TV show Battlestar Galactica, had somebulk added to them to them and for some reason we saw hands that cameout of their bodies when they got close to their prey, and no one issure what that was all about. But, it was creative. Maybe that's whatthose screenwriters did. Hmmmm    Here's something for you to chew on. Harrison Ford is cattlemanDolarhyde and is depicted as a not likable, tough, mean person. In myopinion, Ford has tougher and meaner moments when his character isplaying a good guy in other movies. He should not be made to play a badguy because we won't believe it. Looks forced. I wanted to see this in a bad way, but the CGI killed it all and oh,hum, here we go again! Oh, the acting was okay, not great. Why all theA class stars? The title alone would have pulled people in. You know Iwould be there. All in all very disappointing. Bummer. 5/10.Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: No F-bombs, some SOBs andGDIs.
(14 May 2012)
Cowboys & Aliens
This review is from: Cowboys & Aliens (Extended Version) (Amazon Instant Video) I think this is one of the worst movies I have purchased in many years. The plot was poor, and the acting was not up to any of their potential. The special effects?? Not well done at all.
Sspidel1 (13 May 2012)
Better than what you've heard
Okay, here's the thing. I pride myself on knowing a good movie when Isee one. Some of my favorites are The Departed, Doctor Zhivago, Singin'in the Rain, Annie Hall, Closer and The Terminator (mostly the firstone, when the those involved were hungry for an engaging story and wereforced to be creative rather than rely on CGI). That being said, Ithink I enjoyed this movie because I knew EXACTLY what to expect when Ibought my ticket. When people watch a movie and forget the spirit inwhich it's made it really irritates me. I'm seeing reviews for thismovie that are filled with plot issues and lack of CGI precision. Weare not talking about a movie that promises a deep script or stellarCGI. We are talking about a creative romp. A fun, summer movie that'smeant to entertain. I thought it was fun, had just enough cowboygrittiness (Daniel Craig is tough and rugged but VERY aestheticallypleasing and Harrison Ford is pitch perfect as the crotchety,cantankerous Dolarhyde) and moments to make you jump. How can anintelligent person go to a movie entitled "Cowboys and Aliens" and bedisappointed that it was about cowboys and aliens? Don't go inexpecting Shakespeare meets Avatar, for cryin' out loud. Suspendbelief. Give artistic license. It's very simple and so some people aremaking it harder than it has to be. It was fun. Period.
artpf (10 May 2012)
Dismal
Let's be honest -- Jon Favreau can't direct.Like this flick, the Iron Man series sucks.The film starts out interesting but then descends into boringtriviality.And if you think Harrison Ford is really in this film, think again.He's role is a virtual truncated walk on money shot.Script writing is incomprehensible.Best part -- the big tooth guy from The Shield gets his front toothknocked out but 20 minutes later it's back in his head! The aliens areshown so huge they could never fit into their individual spaceships.How did that happen? Oh and then there's the bleeding hear liberalmessage delivered by the indians. And not one actually looks Indian!Can you get more predictive? And why do so many alien flicks have somesort of mother ship that when destroyed finishes of all the otheraliens? Why? Bad writing, that's why.Stay away.You've been warned.
(10 May 2012)
Expected better
Having seen the trailers I was expecting more than I received when I watched it.With the stars and budget it should have been a better filmPerhaps I would have enjoyed it more if I had watched it for free.Its not without its entertaining moments, there is just not enough of them.Harrison Ford looks bored every time he is on screen.My advice is to wait for it to appear on your TV screens and watch it for free.
Farid_Hijab_Nadweed (06 May 2012)
Memo to Spielberg: No one is interested in your tired-out fantasies
One can definitely expect nothing but loudness and trash from a moviethat stars Daniel Craig, Sam Rockwell and Harrison Ford in the leads.More so if it's directed by Jon Favreau where one can additionallyexpect, with the sole exception of ELF (2004) retarded film-making.'Cowboys & Aliens' is pretty much a retarded remake of 'The PhantomEmpire' (which itself was a mind-numbingly boring Gene Audrey movie).This one just has much more dishum dishum, loudness and epilepticseizures than its source. As bad as it is, the fast forward option on your remote control comesvery handy. Unfortunately at the cinema you must wait out the badspots. I liked the 'CGIs' that were visualized on alien ships. The restof the CGIs are bad and quite unconvincing. Ford and Craig could notact their way out of paper bags and behave as epileptic cows who gotstung on the ass by a swarm of bees. Wilde also does a couple ofshake-the-fart-off moves, especially during the saloon scene. Sherecites her lines like a water-logged hippopotamus. The acting isexpectedly abysmal except for Keith Carradine who plays the Sheriffwith a T and Noah Ringer who is good enough except in the final scene.I can see why Juhi Chawla turned down the role of Alice.Except for Olivia Wilde's item number and her beauty, I didn't findanything appealing about this silly film. In my books 'Cowboys &Aliens' is a loser. I am not a fan of Favreau's work. The Dark Knight was a film that Icould never understand why there was so much hype. A pretentious,incomprehensible piece of retarded garbage, it was average to me, atbest. ELF, however, is much better than the rest of his efforts all puttogether.It is a film that you must see just because the concept is veryinteresting, but it is not something that you can watch over and overagain.
jadepietro (06 May 2012)
Cowboys, Aliens, and Rounding Up the All Important Buck-e-roo
This film is mildly recommended.The western genre has bit the dust. Yes, it's true that, once in agreat while, I reckon, there is a resurgence of these old fashionoaters ( the remakes of 3:10 to Yuma, True Grit, Open Range, TheProposition, even the recent parody, Rango ), but like that classicShane, the western has quietly rode into the sunset. Yet other genresare very much alive and still popular. Sci-fi films are thriving withtoday's movie-going public. So it seems reasonable, and far fromfoolhardy, that a hybrid like Cowboys and Aliens has landed to yourlocal cineplex. Its demographic audience spans generations and can peakthe interest of youngsters and seniors alike. However what issurprising about this mash-up is that this film is less thansurprising. It is strangely predictable and somewhat lifeless. Yes, itstill entertains and is diverting, but I truly expected some amusingtongue-in cheek humor and much more excitement and thrills from my bigbudget blockbusters.Cowboys and Aliens is a rather flat but straightforward retelling ofcountless westerns, but this time, the aliens have replaced the Injunsas the adversaries. Of course, many of this genre stereotypes live on:the lone gunman, the beautiful strong cowgirl, the mean land baron, hissniveling bratty son, the weak pacifist barkeep, the young awe-struckboy. They're all there in the Old Wild West. It's still a wild anddangerous place, but this particular adventure is not very wild, justvery old.Fortunately the cast performs their roles well. Daniel Craig fills outhis chaps rather nicely, and the cast of seasoned character actors likeSam Rockwell, Keith Carradine, Paul Dano, Adam Beach, and Clancy Brownprovide ample support. Olivia Wilde is the female with the gun andgrit, and she does as much as can be done in her underwritten role,looking rather babe-o-licious with her modern Vanity Fair posturing andriding well on her horsey. Harrison Ford, speaking in a lower registerto reinforce his mean side, still has his swagger and a well worn lookabout him.Even the aliens have a well worn appearance about them too, but theyhave a serious identity crisis in their their form and function. Theysuffer in comparison with more inventive and original creatures fromother films, lacking originality and looking like monsters previouslyseen in Robocop, Aliens, and the recent Super 8 film to name few.The first half hour is mostly the cowboy thing, which I must confess isnot my favorite genre. I much prefer the sci-fi fantasy and waitedimpatiently for that portion to kick in. Once the aliens invade thetown, it's us against them with numerous fights with some cheesyspecial effects and other encounters of the third rate kind. As thefilm progressed, even the kinda cool alien lassoing of its town-folksbecame rather monotonous to me after that overused novelty worn off. Still, Cowboys and Aliens is effectively directed by Jon Favreau andsome of his moments with the aliens involving the young boy showed muchpromise and built some needed suspense. But it's the film's lame scriptthat finally disappoints and rarely delivers the adrenaline rush witheither its cowboys or its aliens. In this case, opposites don'tattract. GRADE: B-
rightwingisevil (06 May 2012)
Messy and Meh.........
I don't even know how to view this crazy and clueless movie. It's justlike an American patched blanket written by a bunch of high school kidsin a writing class, everybody throw in some ideas: Hey, how about abunch cowboys mixed up with some aliens? Yeah, how about bandits?robbers? flying war crafts? tavern owner? preacher? mysterious woman?gold coins? Indians? Yeah, how about letting the guy have some specialweapon on his left wrist? Yeah, cool. Apache with spy glass, rifles.How about joint venture or joint forces. Let's liberate Arizona like wetry to liberate Iraq? First, we got to use the big slogan: "Fight ForIraq!" to protect and serve, man. We got to use the woman to become aninterpreter who knows mucho languages. An alien fortress in the Arizonadesert. Yeah, let those guys have some dynamite to blow up the alienfortress. This movie is not environmental "GREEN" either, 'cause theyused lot of explosives in the Arizona wildness that disturbed andruined a lot. All the aliens looked like a mixture of lobster,scorpion, grasshopper, crab, shrimp.....you name it, man.Not quite sure about what I'm saying here? That's quite right, becauseit's just like what the movie did to me. I didn't know what happened inthe end, 'cause I walk out of in the middle.
(05 May 2012)
Low expectations were blown away!
I had very, very, very low expectations for this movie. And it defintiely helped! It was actually a really entertaining and fun movie! I really thought it was going to be terrible and dumb, and don't get me wrong - parts of it were pretty stupid BUT - the movie is called "Cowboys and Aliens", so really what do you expect? I actually really liked the story and action and effects. I thought it was all done really nicely. Just check your brain at the door and give it a shot. Daniel Craig is awesome in this, but that goes for all his films, doesn't it? This is the ultimate guy-movie, and so I heartily recommend it as I am a guy!
(03 May 2012)
Cowboys and Aliens
Tell anyone you've got an alien invasion movie set in the old west, starring Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig, and Olivia Wilde, and directed by Jon Favreau, and chances are that you'll have the listener's full attention. Too bad, then, that the actual film this describes turned out to be a flop. Based on the graphic novel of the same name, Cowboys & Aliens is exactly the kind of genre mash-up that contemporary audiences eat up heartily; 007 himself plays a wandering stranger with no memory who stumbles into the New Mexico town of Absolution, only to find that the town's residents don't take too kindly to strangers. However, when a mysterious otherworldly menace begins an assault on the town, the stranger must team up with the local lawman to battle for humankind's survival. So what was the major problem here? I felt that, despite appealing performances from Craig and Ford, the film simply shifted its tone too abruptly and too often, never quite settling into a comfortable and effective groove. Cowboys & Aliens isn't the awesome genre action flick it could have been, but it may still satisfy those in dire need of a fix.
witster18 (03 May 2012)
Obviously Amnesia Cures Bad Attitudes
The biggest problem I have with this film - we don't care for any ofthe characters.The beginning of the film presents us with two unlikable leads, andthen asks us to care about them because they can't remember who theywere, or because of their new-found plight.This film is already at a disadvantage combining two genre's thatrarely get combined(especially with any success). And in those terms,the movie really isn't all that bad. The effects are pretty nice, andthe film goes with the flow and ends a lot stronger than it begins.CHeck out "Burrowers" for another "average" cross-genre film that issimilar to this - only it's better and has virtually no budget or bigname actors.There's a love interest subplot that also lacks punch because Craigplays a guy that just lost his 'real' love interest; not to mention thenew love interest isn't who we think she is(which presents a wholedifferent problem for the relationship between the two).The action and Daniel Craig do their best to "save the day" with theaudience and the characters' friends and family, but in the end, theaudience gets left in the dark.Aliens attacking the wild west is way down the list of unbelievableplot situations here, and that's obviously not a good thing.You MIGHT like this if you liked:Jonah Hex, The Day the Earth StoodStill(remake), and Purgatory, AND I think this movie is a small notchbelow those very average films.48/100I didn't expect the storyline to be complex, but the script does areally terrible job of molding the characters. This was a HUGE waste ofresources.
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