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Genre | Science Fiction & Fantasy, Mystery & Suspense/Thrillers, Westerns, Action & Adventure |
Format | NTSC, Multiple Formats, Dolby, AC-3, Color, Subtitled, Dubbed, Widescreen |
Contributor | Buck Taylor, Harrison Ford, Jon Favreau, Abigail Spencer, Olivia Wilde, Noah Ringer, Daniel Craig |
Initial release date | 2011-12-06 |
Language | English |
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Product Description
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Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford star in this action-packed sci-fi western from the director of Iron Man (Jon Favreau) that critics call "wickedly original, unlike anything you've ever seen" (Jake Hamilton, Fox-TV Houston, TX). A stranger (Craig) stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella (Olivia Wilde) and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Ford), he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.
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Cowboys & Aliens fuses rip-snortin' horse opera with some whiz-bang sci-fi, melding dry and austere badlands with slimy, mucusy aliens. Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig, of James Bond fame) wakes up in the midst of sagebrush with a mysterious gadget around his wrist and no idea who he is--but he sure does remember how to take care of the bounty hunters who want to bring him in. His path soon crosses with a ruthless cattle baron named Woodrow Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford, of Indiana Jones fame), who's not too happy with Lonergan, who got Dolarhyde's son in trouble. But their fracas becomes beside the point when spaceships descend and start lassoing people like cattle. The humans, including a mysterious woman (Olivia Wilde, Tron), a Native American tribe, and some snaggletoothed outlaws, band together to fight off this invasion from another world. The first two-thirds of Cowboys & Aliens is peppy fun, with its tongue-in-cheek Wild West-ness and colorful supporting cast (including Sam Rockwell, Keith Carradine, Paul Dano, and Walton Goggins) and fairly understated CGI. The last third, with the obligatory assault on the alien vessel and a mess of clichés and inconsistencies, deflates a bit, which isn't surprising given that six screenwriters were involved. Director Jon Favreau (Iron Man) does what he can to keep things lively. Fortunately, the good spirits of the first two-thirds will carry most viewers through to the end. --Bret Fetzer
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Product details
- Aspect Ratio : 2.40:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 0.6 x 5.4 x 7.6 inches; 1.6 ounces
- Item model number : 61115451
- Director : Jon Favreau
- Media Format : NTSC, Multiple Formats, Dolby, AC-3, Color, Subtitled, Dubbed, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 59 minutes
- Release date : December 6, 2011
- Actors : Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Abigail Spencer, Buck Taylor, Olivia Wilde
- Dubbed: : French, Spanish
- Subtitles: : French, English, Spanish
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : Universal Pictures
- ASIN : B004EPYZSK
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #18,574 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #358 in Westerns (Movies & TV)
- #1,882 in Action & Adventure DVDs
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This movie is fun.
Loosen your inner snoot.
The film will not garner an Academy Award nomination, but that does not mean Cowboys & Aliens is a Razzie Award winner either. Just the opposite. Good acting, plot, characterization are pivotal to this good old-fashion western.
*****
Cowboys & Aliens
The Old West… where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror from beyond our world. 1873. New Mexico Territory. A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don't welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Ford). It's a town that lives in fear. But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known. Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he's been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella (Olivia Wilde), he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents-townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors-all in danger of annihilation. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.
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The Breakdown
Jake Lonergan, played by Daniel Craig, cannot remember who he is. He wakes up with a weird metal cuff on his arm and no recollection of how he acquired it, where he has been, or how he ended up in the middle of the desert. Once he makes his way in town to the local saloon, he is met by others who do know him and want him in jail. He is an outlaw.
Woodrow Dolarhyde, played by Harrision Ford, is a cattle rancher. His business is the only thing to keep the small community from becoming a ghost town. He has an ungrateful son, but the loyalty of his men.
Ella Swenson, played by Olivia Wilde, is an alien with one quest: to end the dominate alien's genocide and theft. Her people were exterminated by this alien race, and she has plans to stop them from doing that exact conduct on Earth.
The destructive aliens only want gold. Gold fuels their spacecrafts, but the metal is scarce, leading them to murder and plunder other worlds that possess it.
Together these three characters bring several groups of people to their banner: law men, outlaws, and Native Americans alike to end the terror from the alien assailants.
This film has been rated: 6.0/10 Stars on IMDB.
*****
The Review
Woodrow Dolarhyde: Look. When I was just a little bit older than you are now, all this was Mexico. Word came that the Apaches was riding towards a settlement called Arivaca. My father wanted me to be a man, so made me ride out with the garrison, banging on a drum. Boy, was I scared. Well, we got there, it was too late. They were all dead and the whole place was burnt down. This settler fella came crawling out of a burning cabin. He was bad. He knew he was gonna die. Burnt bad. He rolled over, looked up into my eyes, and he said "Kill me."
A movie where aliens meet revolvers.
This film has heart and soul. Two facets many action-adventure movies are missing today. The Entertainment Industry is too obsessed with technology to realize CGI is not the story or the answer, people are. When optics rules your film and the technology becomes a character, then how do the humans compete with shiny objects, explosions, and visual illusions?
Humans end up on the editing room floor.
Cowboys & Aliens is the right balance of human interactions and technology. The audience is allowed to feel for the characters and understand the odds against them. There are some hard lessons the characters learn about themselves and how they interact with one another. The audience witnesses a man teaching a boy what hard choices lie ahead of him: "Be a man," Woodrow Dolarhyde says.
Such honesty and complexity is devoid from movies these days.
It seems as if moviemakers are more concerned with politics and social engineering, then to realize the human story is what matters. What drives the human condition is what makes the audience want to watch. The father-son interactions with Woodrow Dolarhyde are great. I wish there were more movies about these divine masculine rites of passage and relationships instead of name-calling (toxic masculinity). The only behavior that is toxic is the presence of man-haters.
Westerns are usually a man's fare, but this film allows the audience the chance to see a woman in an action as well as romantic role, men coming into their own power through courage and tests, and enemies becoming allies to fight for something bigger than themselves. All in all, a pretty well-made film.
But have audiences been so jaded by political correctness that they are unable to see a great movie when one present itself to them? By the low rating of this movie, that would be an affirmative.
Take off your postmodern, dystopic glasses, Cowboys & Aliens is a film connoisseur's treat.
Watched free on Prime Video.
*****
The Tally
My review will be posted on Prime as well as IMDB.
Prime... 4 out of 5 stars
IMDB... 8 out of 10 stars
Have a great and wonderful day.
I think the way the movie started off you would think it was a "true western"--tough, rough, etc. But the PC stuff creeps in when the rich guy cries over his lost Indian son and the Indian son was loyal to his white dad. Gag. The aliens were rehashed creatures. The reason that they were here has been done many times. Even their "nest" looked like a NASA rocket. How lazy is that? It was little weird to see James Bond in a western. He even wore his over zealously tailored pants (can that man wear underwear in these movies with his pants so tight?). And like all other British he spoke so low to speak in an American accent I could barely understand him. I think they thought it might work given his loner incognito persona. But it was just annoying.