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- 2000
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 10 m
- 2000
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 10 m
Summary In the 1950's, one of the first satellites was launched. Today, it is malfunctioning and threatening the Earth, and the original astronaut (Eastwood) is asked to go and do repairs. He wants three old air force buddies to go with him into space for the last time and fix it.
Directed By: Clint Eastwood
Written By: Ken Kaufman, Howard Klausner
- 2000
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 10 m
- 2000
- PG-13
- Warner Bros.
- 2 h 10 m
Space Cowboys
73
6.3
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Summary In the 1950's, one of the first satellites was launched. Today, it is malfunctioning and threatening the Earth, and the original astronaut (Eastwood) is asked to go and do repairs. He wants three old air force buddies to go with him into space for the last time and fix it.
Directed By: Clint Eastwood
Written By: Ken Kaufman, Howard Klausner
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 35 Critic Reviews
73
89% Positive
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11% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 35 Critic Reviews
73
89% Positive
31 Reviews
31 Reviews
11% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Best movie of the summer.
The movie itself, like these guys, is defiantly old school -- confident, relaxed, professional.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 63 User Ratings
6.3
48% Positive
30 Ratings
30 Ratings
46% Mixed
29 Ratings
29 Ratings
6% Negative
4 Ratings
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 63 User Ratings
6.3
48% Positive
30 Ratings
30 Ratings
46% Mixed
29 Ratings
29 Ratings
6% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
" Courage , pride and thats what space cowboys is about ". Four legends Clint Eastwood , Tommy Lee Jones, Hunger Games Donald Sutherland an James Garner are reunited to take down the Russian satllite in space. A good plot whats not to enjoy from a clint eastwood film/movie. Great effects , Amazing cast and great Directing from Eastwood. Clint Eastwood Does it AGAIN ! makes the marvelous film
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Something just doesn't quite feel right about 'Space Cowboys'.
It's good, but it always feels like it's stuck in second gear to me. I was anticipating more based on the cast, but even they are a little underwhelming. it's relative to what I was expecting, as Eastwood is still solid, Tommy Lee Jones and Donald Sutherland too, and the plot is satisfactory; even if I would've shaved off 15-25 minutes. An interesting piece of casting, btw, is the film debut of one Jon Hamm.
Borderline forgettable, but nothing bad. It narrowly gets a 3* rating from yours truly.
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Eastwood provides more than an hour of easygoing fun, followed by 45 minutes of action and suspense.
The joy of Space Cowboys is in spending quality time with some favorite old actors who obviously enjoy working together.
The plot is too implausible to rank with "Unforgiven," but, oh, what a fun ride.
Space Cowboys does achieve liftoff.
If only this amiable shaggy dog story...didn't degenerate into an implausible, second-rate thriller after takeoff.
Conspiracy For Commercialism.
Space Cowboys
Eastwood's scientific theories on the term entertainment is too dull to even fall under the category of guilty pleasure. It is overridden with a thin slice of content and undercooked characters with questionable agendas and inane work methods. The petty feeble attempts to pull off humor to lighten the mood fails so miserably that it itches the viewers to encounter the makers sweat behind the screen to draw in a chuckle. Based on a textbook structure, that divides the narration into the first act being the cliched training and the other one being the execution of the plan, the only surprising aspect that favours in on storytelling is the flips and turns of the perspective that is kept under the shades by the government agents with our troops.
With an amazing visual effects and ferocious pace, it is undoubtedly a people pleasing summer blockbuster, even though walks a dull cliched surface which isn't still reaching the expected layman terms. The script is so weak, that style over substance case would have saved this loosely placed screenplay, but is unfortunately poked annoyingly until the viewers break. Carrying a cast of caliber like such, the allotted content to them seems like a mere sticky note that they have to hold on to.
Only Eastwood and Jones when sharing the screen feels like stretching their muscles where the rest of the time, they too aren't convincing. Sutherland and Garner as the supporters are not only unexplored but misused as a sidekick to distract the viewers. The first act being the greetings and meetings sweeps off fluently but the second one where the character build up is essential, is so poorly weaved out that even the actors fails to fabricate it convincingly on screen. Space Cowboys is silhouetted as a commercial box office charmer which may be low on craft but has a big enough banner to cover it up.
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I have a question about this movie: Why in the world did I rent it? I saw someone online, perhaps a celebrity, recommending it, maybe as something that is good for a few laughs. Someone was wrong. This takes an old western or adventure paradigm and sets it in the US space program - it is time to get the old team together to rescue a Russian satellite that is on a collision course with Planet Earth. Enough said.
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Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 3 Nominations
Hochi Film Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
