Cowboys & Aliens

cool movie!!

i thought this movie was realy cool!! lots of action and suspence and they DID make it clear what the aliens were doing on earth, bukster obviously wasnt paying attention and who on earth can resist daniel craig!?

Expensive Rubbish

They want our gold those alien b**tards, but Daniel Craig will stop them using his wrist laser bomb! Ah, by the way, Daniel Craig doesn't fear a gun pointed to his head from a crazy maniac, because he is so cool! Rubbish!

Refund !

Needs more aliens

Overall this movie was fun. It could have used more appearances by the aliens. They didn't show up nearly often enough. What the aliens were doing on Earth was never made clear. They just seemed to like coming to this planet in hi-tech spacecraft to shoot up small towns and kidnap people. I would think that if aliens do exist and have the technology to get here, they might be able to think of something more constructive than what they were doing in this film.

failed mix

Great idea that never quite got carried off. The mystique and thrill was over quickly and the ending a failure. No points for storyline or plot. Borderline cliche. Its only saviour some reasonable acting from Craig, and resonable curves from Wilde.

great aliens really enjoyed

Where is it?

I was looking forward to this one. It's been in the shops since Wednesday. However, it had not appeared in Dunedin Video Ezy two days after it was available to buy. This just keeps happening. I'll write a review when I've seen it, but if they don't get it, I can't rent it.

A.V. Club (USA)

You want cowboys and aliens in the same movie? This one's for you. If you want anything beyond what the title promises, look elsewhere. And that means even anything resembling a clever mash-up of established genres.

Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)

Cowboys & Aliens has without any doubt the most cockamamie plot I've witnessed in many a moon.

Dominion Post (Graeme Tuckett)

Cowboys & Aliens is a frustrating film. Some individual scenes and set pieces are terrifically enjoyable, but that mash-up of genres won't allow one good solid story to develop. The western elements are too gimmicky, while the sci-fi yields nothing more than a pack of bad-guys.

Empire (UK)

A simple entertainment in a summer of overcomplicated disappointments. Also much harder-edged than you may have expected.

Hollywood Reporter

The key to its success lies in the determination by everyone involved to play the damn thing straight. Even the slightest goofiness, the tiniest touch of camp, and the whole thing would blow sky high. But it doesn't.

Los Angeles Times

A leaden mash-up of western and science-fiction elements that ends up noisy, grotesque and unappealing.

New York Times

Favreau wavers uncertainly between goofy pastiche and seriousness in a movie that wastes its title and misses the opportunity to play with, you know, ideas about the western and science-fiction horror.

Total Film (UK)

Solid bordering on stolid. It’s Favreau in control again after Avengers advert Iron Man 2 - but given the possibilities, a mild, mild west. More horsing around and another set-piece or two might’ve helped.

Variety (USA)

While Cowboys & Aliens offers little in the way of sociological insight (except perhaps giving the white man a taste of his own resource-stealing medicine), it's still a ripping good ride.