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Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford are as dependably appealing as ever, but they're let down by director Jon Favreau's inability to smooth Cowboys & Aliens' jarring tonal shifts.
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There is nothing that fascinating about Favreau's treatment, nor his source material, but compared with similar blockbuster fare of recent months, this curious exercise in genre bending is very watchable. Aug 19, 2011 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
There is nothing that fascinating about Favreau's treatment, nor his source material, but compared with similar blockbuster fare of recent months, this curious exercise in genre bending is very watchable.
Ed Gibbs
If you can swallow the shameless set-up, it's all highly entertaining. Aug 19, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
If you can swallow the shameless set-up, it's all highly entertaining.
David Sexton
Jon Favreau handles the big setpieces with competence if no great flair; whenever the plot backs itself into a corner something else will make a sudden, inexplicable interruption. Aug 19, 2011 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Jon Favreau handles the big setpieces with competence if no great flair; whenever the plot backs itself into a corner something else will make a sudden, inexplicable interruption.
Anthony Quinn
Favreau ... allows the material's imaginative possibilities to flare up and fade away. Aug 18, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Favreau ... allows the material's imaginative possibilities to flare up and fade away.
Sukhdev Sandhu
The density of inanity at the conceptual core of this crass sci-fi western starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford pushes outwards, inflating fatuous substance and propelling bric-a-brac in all directions. Aug 18, 2011 | Rating: 0/5 | Full Review…
The density of inanity at the conceptual core of this crass sci-fi western starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford pushes outwards, inflating fatuous substance and propelling bric-a-brac in all directions.
Nigel Andrews
Yes, yes, cowboys punching aliens in the face can be funny. But it doesn't make this silly endeavour worthwhile. Aug 18, 2011 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Yes, yes, cowboys punching aliens in the face can be funny. But it doesn't make this silly endeavour worthwhile.
Peter Bradshaw
Cowboys and Aliens purports to be a genre mash-up, which means that somebody needed to figure out how to integrate Western tropes with sci-fi ones. Unfortunately, no one bothered. Sep 16, 2019 | Full Review…
Cowboys and Aliens purports to be a genre mash-up, which means that somebody needed to figure out how to integrate Western tropes with sci-fi ones. Unfortunately, no one bothered.
Noah Berlatsky
it takes more than a clever concept to drive a film, and Cowboys & Aliens never rises above that to attain its full potential. Jun 7, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
it takes more than a clever concept to drive a film, and Cowboys & Aliens never rises above that to attain its full potential.
Matthew Lucas
Despite a talented pedigree on both sides of the camera, it is a mind-numbingly dull excursion. May 7, 2019 | Rating: D+ | Full Review…
Despite a talented pedigree on both sides of the camera, it is a mind-numbingly dull excursion.
Micheal Compton
Cowboys & Aliens is everything its moniker implies, including a whole lot of fun. Feb 8, 2019 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Cowboys & Aliens is everything its moniker implies, including a whole lot of fun.
Abbie Bernstein
The cast is outstanding. The story is compelling-at times, even touching, and the aliens are cool. Sure there are some plot-holes, but they do more right than wrong. Dec 5, 2018 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…
The cast is outstanding. The story is compelling-at times, even touching, and the aliens are cool. Sure there are some plot-holes, but they do more right than wrong.
Debbie Baldwin
A sci-fi / adventure movie where entertainment (and suspension of disbelief) is the priority; and it's well paced, whilst being neither innovative nor particularly clever. Nov 14, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A sci-fi / adventure movie where entertainment (and suspension of disbelief) is the priority; and it's well paced, whilst being neither innovative nor particularly clever.
Margherita Pellegrino
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