Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

So...this was boring.And that is pretty odd for a movie that has "Cowboys & Aliens" as its title. Its two things that usually are pretty far from boring. I love Westerns, I love Sci-Fi, this movie should have been a serious popcorn muncher.And instead it was boring.It's starts off really cool, the wounded man alone in the desert, clearly just after a fight...and then it gives you the very real feeling that you've seen it before, the only difference is the Alien technology on his wrist.And then it hits a few cliches that you've also seen before in the troupes of Spaghetti Westerns. By then, if it hasn't lost you then you are a really a trooper.From there it goes into Science Fiction....or more science fiction...but that doesn't improve the film, you're already wondering what you're going to cook for dinner tomorrow.By the time the big reveal hits and you seen the Indians...the dinner your thinking about has turned gourmet and it's seriously going to wow your girlfriend who was kind enough to watch it with you despite liking neither genre.And by the end of the movie you want to take a nap and are wondering how something like that could have happened in a movie with "Cowboys & Aliens" as the title

My friends would say to me that I wasn't going to like "Cowboys and Aliens". However, I dismissed their words of warnings and just went to watch the film with lowered expectations and in with an open mind. There is an ensemble of talented performers. It will have scenes that will make you reconsider and observes that come into the mainstream of things. No matter whatever was said about the movie "Cowboys and Aliens" all other excuses pushed aside the fundamental aspect behind it all is that this genre collage of Western, science-fiction, action is that the only excuse I will accept is that plain and simple, it doesn't work. Even when it works to its potential, it still falls over flat. With its star quality and a huge budget depending on it, this flop is all the more upsetting.Daniel Craig stars as Jake Lonergan and his not is what we';d call the best. He's bloodied, bruised, disheveled,and he's sporting a metallic bracelet and he's in the middle of nowhere and as no idea of who he is or how he got here or where his destination he will proceed to next. He then stumbles into a town and we discover that he is a marked man and that a rancher named Woodrow Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford) wants to take him on, until an alien spaceship joins the fray and that's when the party is underway. Now these two rivals will have to put their differences aside and they are joined by bandits and some Native Americans to take down these creatures and send them back to wherever they came from.The biggest flaw about "Cowboys and Aliens" comes from the way too much of a good thing with very little to offer. Sure we have a strong cast of talented performers like Craig, Ford, Sam Rockwell, Olivia Wilde, Paul Dano among many others. We have a director like Jon Favreau so this film is in good hands and mind. The budget is very hefty so we're likely going to have enough adrenaline for action fans to get excited about. And we have a subject matter that's bold and not talked about a lot. This is all in place to be to have the makings of a cult classic film. Though the intentions are abrasive in nature, the film loses it by turning in one cliche after another which distracts its real intentions of remaining what was intended to be, an over-priced B-movie.In spite of its early scenes that pay homage to the Western films of the 1950's and Sergio Leone and his spaghetti Westerns, and Daniel Craig sporting an eerily resemblance to Yul Brynner, the film starts to fall flat from there. We get bombarded with a cornucopia of characters we're forced to be fond of and Craig's "aw shucks" awkward moments expecting us to be amused, only to end up having them meet their fate and from then on it lazily sails into a stream of formulaic moments while concealing its guilt by distracting us with special effects which were pretty good, but it's still been done to death way too many times which becomes tiring after a while.There are some great moments to "Cowboys and Aliens" like first getting to know Jake in the opening scenes was kind of cool and we feel intrigued by the fact he's an anti-hero up for the task in a predicament he never anticipated in. Sure the set pieces were all too familiar, they still manage to be provocative.though at times illogical.Under all that potential, this movie loses steam very quickly and leaves you with an empty feeling of anything but satisfaction. It's a B-movie action film made to look big concealed with all the cliches that the science-fiction and the Western films have to offer. Sure you can see this for the fun of it, but like many anti-heroes films in the Western genre, the plot wanders off with nothing original or anything deemed creative

Seems to be really miscast with James Bond playing Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones playing a bit of a bad guy and Clancy Brown playing the kindly preist. It all works really well though and it's a very entertaining movie though.

A spaceship arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys and natives are all that stand in their way. The first time i saw the trailer for this film i thought it was lame i mean common Cowboys & Aliens? then i saw the film and i wasn't impressed but after seeing it again god damn it was a pretty good movie Daniel Craig was pretty good so was Olivia Wilde, Harrison Ford, Clancy Brown, Sam Rockwell and honestly everyone did a pretty good job although Paul Dano was useless. My main issue is that i wanted more Ford and more adventure but the film was good besides those 2 small problems and the cgi was amazing maybe the best i've seen in years especially the first contact with the Aliens was terrific if a movie such as this can take a 6.0 and a forgettable superhero sequel such as Iron Man 2 can have a 7.0 shouldn't Zathura also be higher than a 6.1? My point is that those 2 films that were directed by the same director were way better than Iron Man 2 and if you can study this film better and give it a chance i believe that you will not be disappointed 9/10.