Summary1873. Arizona 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 i...
Summary1873. Arizona 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 i...
Director Jon Favreau keeps the tone light but, aside from the occasional low-key gag or one-liner, the humor is never allowed to upstage the more serious elements.
I don't care that it's got a silly title. "Cowboys & Aliens" is a straight-up super-sized platter of undiluted entertainment. Jon Favreau deftly weaves together the iconic genres of Western and sci-fi in a seamless plot that has fun with all the cliches and tropes of both worlds while making their mixing feel authentic and honest and it is just awesome. This is the kind of fun-loving action picture that I just die for. The effects are great, the scenery is spectacular, the vision is huge, the performances are lovely, the music is cool, and it's got friggin' Harrison Ford in a ten-gallon shooting aliens. How the hell can that not be fun? People can whine and moan about how stupid this movie is all they want they're missing the point. My absolute enduring favorite movies are always the ones that take themselves seriously while having total fun with themselves (ahem, "The Mummy" and "The Mummy Returns"). And this flick delivered that in total spades.
A loving throwback to the classic westerns and sci-fi adventures of yore, this celebration of two of cinema's most revered genres doesn't stint in lavishing their most cherished conventions with even-handed affection and respect.
Instead of merging the Western and the sci-fi genre to form some new, transcendent class of popcorn fare, Cowboys & Aliens just regurgitates the conventions of both genres. Double the high concept, quadruple the clichés.
The movie never makes much of a case for its own existence; it's a mediocre western clumsily welded to a mediocre alien shoot-'em-up, and if you allow yourself to think about its treatment of history for as long as one second, you'll feel insulted.
The sole treasure of Cowboys & Aliens is that director Jon Favreau ("Iron Man") has fashioned an actual rawhide ride from a graphic novel (that took six writers to wrangle to the screen).
Brandishing a literal-minded title as laughable as the rest of its action, Cowboys & Aliens mashes up genres with a staunch dedication to getting everything wrong, making sure that each scene is more inane than the one that preceded it.
This movie is one of Speilberg's greatest hits yet! I liked it. What could be better trhan seeing two figures that have a bunch of stories, and mixing them. I give this a ten out of ten because of the creativity that speilberg put into this.
The movie has a very interesting concept and some nice actors, but it is pretty boring. Also the events happening along the storyline seem stupid and not logical just like in some B-class Sci Fi movie.
As a western, it works. As a sci-fi, it doesn't. A movie that by its very name you would think would have more fun with the concept. Instead they actually take themselves a bit too seriously trying desperately to merge two genres that usually wouldn't work. It does kind of work, but what we get is a movie that just feels like it can't decide who its appealing to: Fans of Westerns, or fans of Sci-fis. Harrison Ford really seams to be not even trying in this movie, but it was kind of fun seeing him play a bad guy for a change. Overall: A movie that boasted more than it could possibly deliver and that perhaps could have been better had they turned up the comedy a bit.
A temática, a principio, é interessante. Porém, Jon Favreau resolve abraçar a artificialidade e jogar tudo que poderia fazer com que essa obra de fato florescesse.
Apesar do combate direto ser com o Aliens, eles não tem muito tempo de tela no filme. Se o roteiro fosse bom, isso seria utilizado em favor de desenvolver os personagens, o que não acontece aqui. Sim, temos algumas subtramas, mas que são muito insignificantes não só para o publico mas também até mesmo para os próprios personagens. O Coronel foi o único que me chamou a atenção, isso apenas por conta do Harrison Ford, que sou fan. Clancy Brown está bem no filme, porém não é muito bem explorado. Já Daniel Craig não sai da sua zona de conforto e entrega apenas o que lhe é exigido. Algumas interpretações são bem meia boca, mas como o filme nunca me exigiu um alto nível de seriedade, nem sei se isso realmente conta como um ponto negativo.
A caracterização do aliens é genérica e não há se quer um foco neles. Claro, o filme é sobre eles, mas o roteiro fala o contrario. Não sabemos nada sobre os mesmos. Não há nenhum mistério construído sobre e, pensando bem... que bom. Pois nada nos é entregue, no final das contas. Fora todo estereotipo de alta tecnologia e monstros que só são inteligentes na premissa do roteiro. Quer dizer... eles resolveram abraçar o que mais havia de bobo na cultura pop, o que indica que o pensamento sempre foi nivelado por baixo nessa obra. A mesma coisa acontece com a extraterrestre, do nosso lado. Toda amplitude que aqui poderia ser explorada é substituída para uma linha simples onde qualquer pessoa pode entender. Só que alguém podia explicar ao diretor que é possível fazer um filme com diversas camadas. Simples e complexas. Também houve algo que me incomodou bastante. Do nada, o filme faz com que o Coronel - cuja personalidade é aquilo que vimos - DEIXE DE LADO que o protagonista roubou seu ouro, sentou a porrada no seu filho e possivelmente matou uma mulher. Cara, como assim?
Do nada eles estão lá, super companheiros.
A fotografia é boa, em alguns momentos. Mas como a direção de arte não me parece muito preocupada sobre como eles querem que vejamos o filme, podemos resumi-la a bons ângulos. A OST é discreta, estando ali para aumentar o suspense e a tensão, mas a mesma não trabalha sozinha, se é que me entendem.
O filme é "assistivel", mas há tantas pontas soltas, conveniências e o conteúdo é tão vago de forma geral, que é impossível dar uma nota positiva só porque ele me entreteve por determinado momento.
So much has been made of this film but in truth, it is a pretty poor film. Daniel Craig gives a pretty good performance and obviously Olivia Wilde is gorgeous but neither is good enough to lift this film out of the dumps. I was pretty shocked considering Jon Favreau has directed some very good action films.
Production Company
Universal Pictures,
Dreamworks Pictures,
Reliance Entertainment,
Relativity Media,
Imagine Entertainment,
K/O Paper Products,
Fairview Entertainment,
Platinum Studios,
K/O Camera Toys,
O Entertainment