Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Sienna-Rose Mclaughlin The movie really just wants to entertain people.

eric262003 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

Leofwine_draca 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.

ThrillKillZ Craig stars as Jake Lonergan, a stoic outlaw in Arizona sometime in the late 19th Century who wakes up with no memory and some metal device on his wrist. When he arrives in the town of Absolution, the sheriff discovers he's wanted and attempts to ship him off for a reward. That's when the aliens attack, bombing the town and roping up locals before flying off into the night. Lonergan's bracelet activates as a weapon and suddenly he's the only one capable of defeating these things. He joins a rescue party led by a grumpy Civil War vet named Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford) and they all set off to find out what happened to their loved ones.The script introduces characters willy-nilly and provides little satisfactory explanation for anything that happens. The story paints Lonergan as a quiet badass, but one who has flashes of some woman he loved. Because his past slowly unravels with nothing revelatory to show for it as the film wears on, it's tough to care much or even see him as capable of romantic feelings. Regardless, a woman named Ella (Olivia Wilde) keeps approaching him with questions he doesn't have the answers to and she evolves into a love interest for nothing but the sake of it. Sam Rockwell has little to no bearing on the film other than serving an example of an otherwise peaceful man who will do whatever it takes to get his wife back. He's a waste in the role. As for Ford, he just gets on screen and acts grumpy and impatient. We've seen everyone on board do so much better. Did these folks not read the script? Probably not considering the number of drafts alone.

adonis98-743-186503 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.