Cowboys & Aliens Movie Reviews

Now some would term this a weird concoction. But if you have a yen for funky cocktails, then Cowboys and Aliens might just tease your palate with its unusual mix of extra terrestrials and wild west heroes. The film works mostly through its whacky encounters between the strange-looking invaders and the bunch of brave humans who settle all their differences to wage this one final battle to save the world. The fact that they are helped by another

There are cowboys, and there are aliens, and then there are cowboys and aliens. And still, all it comes down to is gold. Based on a graphic novel, this is one of those films which makes considerable effort to set up the atmosphere, the details, the actors, the setting – besides experimenting with what is potentially a great idea -- and then just goes plain lazy with what to do with them. After an absorbing start with a nicely buffeted Daniel Craig

Galloping across the desert, his inscrutable baby blues fixed on the horizon, Daniel Craig makes for a surprisingly convincing cowboy. Some actors, including a few in his new movie, Cowboys & Aliens, look too modern for old-timey roles. There isn’t enough grit, suffering and poor nutrition in their faces, and their gestures and gaits are timed to the impatient rhythms of the information age. But Mr. Craig, with his brutally handsome face and coiled physicality

As many as six writers are credited with bringing 'Cowboys & Aliens' to the screen. It's true what they say about too many cooks. This Western-meets-sci-fi khichdi is a somber and humourless affair with none of the popcorn fun that you expect from a film with a goofy title like this. Set in the 1870s, the film stars Daniel Craig as a mysterious stranger with no memory of his identity, who turns up in a shabby desert town sporting an intricate

The Westerns worked on similar themes and motifs and relied most often on skilfully-written scripts, star power and dialogue. Naturally, it became a beloved legacy of not only the Americans but of all passionate movie-goers anywhere in the world. Cowboys & Aliens squanders that legacy without so much as blinking an eye. There's not a single piece of line that you carry back home, a brazen insult to the genre which is credited with some of the greatest quotes

I don't know about you, but I'm a bit tired of the way Hollywood portrays aliens. For the past 30 years, from Aliens to District 9, they've more or less always been depicted as violent, slimy creatures. Isn't it funny how they're technologically advanced enough to build spaceships, but haven't yet developed basic things like language skills, clothing and a habit of not eating their food raw? Cowboys And Aliens, a big-budget crowd-pleasing wannabe

The genre mash-up of Cowboys & Aliens is more a mush-up, an action yarn aiming to be both science fiction and Old West adventure but doing neither all that well. The filmmakers — and there are a lot of them, among them director Jon Favreau, 11 producers or executive producers including Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard and Brian Grazer, plus half a dozen credited writers — start with a title that lays out a simple but cool premise: invaders

Cowboys & Aliens review Business rating: 1.5/5 stars. What’s Good: Daniel Craig’s performance; the cinematogra...