REVIEW: Great Title, Cool Idea, But Cowboys and Aliens Crash-Lands

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Movieline Score: 6

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The B-movie marquee title of Cowboys and Aliens suggests a picture that’s more irreverent, imaginative, and fun than the turgid movie that stands behind it. Rather than goosing the Western and sci-fi genres into the ring for a showdown, Jon Favreau’s follow-up to the Iron Man franchise takes a pretty radical structural shortcut: Replace the Indians in a classic, mix-‘em-up Western with jacked-up, gold-greedy aliens. What’s most disappointing about the raucous but ultimately cumbersome result is the feeling — which only progresses as the improbable posse at the center of the film closes in on its intergalactic enemy — that Cowboys and Aliens may just as easily have been Cowboys and Zombies, or Werewolves, or Wall Street Time Travelers Venturing into the Past for Capital.

The stranger who rides into town is a wanted man by the name of Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig). Like the Inuit and their many words for “snow,” Jake has a thousand squinty faces and they all mean “Bugger off.” He arrives in an Arizona outpost just as Percy (Paul Dano), the callow son of bigwig local rancher Woodrow Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford), is throwing his weight around, and a hubbub ensues. A shopkeeper named Doc (Sam Rockwell) demonstrates his fair but essentially timid nature, and his pretty, vulnerable Latina wife (Ana de la Reguera) looks pretty and vulnerable. Jake and Percy are about to be carted away when mean old Woodrow rolls up (along with his adoring Apache surrogate son, played beautifully by Adam Beach) and fingers Jake as the thief of his stash of gold.…

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