Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

• Year: 2011
• Released: 29 Jul 2011
• Country: United States, India
• Adwords: 1 win & 17 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0409847/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Cowboys_and_Aliens_EXTENDED
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/cowboys-aliens
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, Apache languages
• MPA Rating: PG-13
• Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
• Runtime: 119 min
• Writer: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof
• Director: Jon Favreau
• Cast: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde
• Keywords: 19th century, alien, robbery, creature, escape,

	6.0/10
	50/100

Cowboys & Aliens Storyline

The Old West.. where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror from beyond our world. 1873. New Mexico 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 don’t welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Ford). It’s 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 he’s been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella (Olivia Wilde), he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents-townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors-all in danger of annihilation. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.

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Cowboys & Aliens Movie Reviews

Great title, visuals, soundtrack and action but soulless and unengaging

Ever since I first heard of Cowboys & Aliens it was actually one of my most-wanted-to-see movies of the year. However, when it came to seeing it I found it a let down. Not all of it is a mess though. It is a well made movie, with cinematography and editing to be admired and settings and costumes that are not only great but show some imagination. The soundtrack is fitting and memorable, and while the first action scene was a tad overlong, the action is beautifully choreographed and definitely one of the more interesting parts of the movie. Plus the title is great and one of the things that drew me in in the first place. The let downs however are in the writing and in the story. The writing is mostly awful, particularly in the slower moments where those moments are peppered with schmaltz, and the story is dull with little satisfactorily explained. Jon Favreau’s direction is mixed, great in the action scenes, pedestrian at other points, while the characters are underdeveloped and little more than clichéd. Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford are decent enough but deserved much more than they got, while the female lead was annoying and forgettable. In conclusion, wanted to like it but there were too flaws that prevented me from properly engaging with it. 4/10 Bethany Cox

Better than I hoped for

COWBOYS & ALIENS is one of those “what it says on the tin” type movies, obvious in content from the title. I wasn’t expecting to like it much, feeling that modern-day science fiction films tend to be all about the big CGI effects without much warmth or character to go with them, but I didn’t have worried. This film is refreshingly old-fashioned in feel and for two-thirds of the running time focuses on being a western rather than a sci-fi flick, which is all well and good.

Things kick off well with Steve McQueen-alike Daniel Craig waking up in the desert, with an alien wristwatch and a cracking headache/case of amnesia. He’s soon involved in a plot involving arch criminal Harrison Ford, but any local enmity is put on hold when the aliens show up in an impressively destructive set-piece. What I liked most about this film is that it’s straight-up serious, rather than being loaded with annoying and goofy humour. The performances are therefore better than hoped for, and the direction is fine, with the early, brutal fight scenes really proving successful. Sure, it does go on a little too long, and the ending descends into effects-filled nonsense, but overall this is winning and watchable.

needs more aliens and less cowboys

Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) with no memory is stranded in the middle of the desert with a mysterious shackle on his wrist. Passing cowboys try to take him into the town of Absolution. Jake overpowers them. He rides into town with stolen gear and horse. The population isn’t too friendly cowered by the iron-fisted cattle rancher Colonel Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford). Preacher Meacham (Clancy Brown) finds the stranger in his place and treats his wound. The town is terrorized by the Colonel’s son Percy Dolarhyde (Paul Dano). Jake gets on Percy’s bad side. Then Sheriff John Taggart (Keith Carradine) notices Jake’s face on a wanted poster.

The town is all angry and unlikeable. The fact is the aliens come into the movie a little too late. The cowboys part of the movie isn’t very compelling. It’s a lot of posing. The story isn’t all that important. If the movie is anything, it’s to pit cowboys against the aliens. I don’t see any reason to tease the aliens for thirty minutes. Director Jon Favreau should have made this a straight up action adventure. Instead there is some unnecessary mano a mano between Ford and Craig. They basically step on each other. Olivia Wilde tries to add some likability to the cast. The posse is filled with characters that nobody cares about. There is a twist that tries to make the story interesting. It would have been great if I actually care about anybody in the story.