Cowboys & Aliens

Although it wasnt one of the best films of the year cowboys and aliens still has a high entertainment value, the cast is pretty good Harrison ford looked a bit more comfortable playing a character thats suited for his age, Craig looked good as the lead and Olivia provided the eye candy if little else, this movie should have been much better but its still great fun, take your brain out for this one you wont need it, a well polished sci-fi western with an original premise and funny crab looking aliens.

Sci-Fi and western have never gone well together as1999's disaster The Wild,Wild,West and 2010's write off Jonah Hex still resonate as Turkey's!
But with the early trailers of Cowboys & Aliens this movie looked like it could put the record straight. With being produced by Speilbergand Ron Howard and also starring Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and the drop dead beautiful Olivia Wilde (Tron Legacy) The movie if nothing else should be the guilty pleasure of the Summer of 2011. But with the summer being bombarded with Robots fisting them selves to death, Wizards fighting the final battle and every Marvel second grade comic book being on the screen this movie was always going to have a fight on it's hands.
The good news is that Cowboys & Aliens surpasses my expectations as it's a western first that happens to have aliens in it!
The comedy element has been toned down and the characters have been flushed out more. Craig is excellent as the stranger who walks into town missing his memory, Harrison Ford is the best he has been in ages as the gruff rauncher and Wilde is just stunning, so much so she's almost a destraction as at times I was looking at her more than the action. The creature design is great imagine a toad from hell crossed with a crab and you'll be half way there. The plot also is pretty good and tight and Directed from the same guy who did the excellent Iron Man and the flabby Avengers advert that was Iron Man 2 keeps the plot tight, with a few well timed plot reverlations and the action swift and at times brutal. The effects are great and the music score is brilliant.
Some may complain that it may miss a few action sequences to contend with the big summer event movies, but I found the slower pace a refreshing change and what it may lack in missing one or two action sequences it gains by well written characters.
This is one of the better summer event movies that although may not bring in Billion plus dollars of the likes of Transformers and Harry Potter hopefuly will gain a more cult following and with a bit of luck a sequel.
See if you like.........
Tremors.
True Grit.
Eight Legged Freaks.
War of the Worlds.
Super 8.

I waited a good time for this to be on the cinema and it was worth the wait, I enjoyed this a lot and have put my name down for the DVD release, if you not seen it then go, a sci-fi with a twist

This film is brilliant it has action of a cowboy film with the added funny one liners along with alien story..well worth buying

Absolutely brilliant western movie turned into sci-fi. After watching the movie I felt the nearly 2 hours running time had just flew by. From such a simple title this is mixing up the space theme and the western theme to create something new. Which has paid off. The acting was spot on and from such a simple storyline came such enjoyment and pleasure from this movie. Also top acting from Craig and Wilde, two brilliant actors, both suited and devoted to their roles, which resulted in such a top perforance, if you are a fan of sci-fi and western, watch this and prepare to see both brought up to the next level.

What a film saw it at cinema and no worse on dvd it is a complete blast

Here the Gold Rush of White Settlers and the damage done to Native Americans is cleverly re-written so that the Humans (both White and Natives) become the Indians and the Aliens become the intruders.

Daniel Craig gives a solid performance as the "Hero" and Harrison Ford does a good job of being the Mr Nasty that's in fact not too Nasty when you get to know him.

The Aliens are suitable vicious without being too over the top with fair CGI to boot.

Overall a good bit of fun if not overly deep.

Worth the money.

ive seen this in the cinema with mates of mine and it was a fun sci-fi westen action movie. the sfx are amazing the action sences are superb and it may be a bit too scary for young children. good film. its worth a watch

With a title like Cowboys vs Aliens you get what you expect. I enjoyed this much more than I expected to and was surprised by how violent this is, which makes the film all the better. Ford does the grumpy cowboy role justice and Craig is fine in his badboy with memory loss character. If you're after an easy to watch, leave your brain at home film then this is defintely worth a watch. I'll be adding this to my collection

Good performances all round in what is a good well balanced mix of Cowboys & Aliens but other than some quite good effects the movie is quite drawn out into becoming boring at times for me