Cowboys & Aliens
Synopsis:
The movie started in 1873, Arizona Territory where a loner, Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) suddenly awakens in the desert injured and with no memory of who he is. There is also a weird metal band shackled to his left wrist and is unable to unbuckled. He proceed to wander into a town caleed Absolution where he was treated of his injuries by a local preacher, Meachma (Clancy Brown). Then, he began to find trouble with a rich drunk kid called Percy Dolarhyde (Paul Dano) who accidentally shot the town's deputy sheriff. The town sheriff also recognize the loner as Jake, the head of a bandit who is involves in robbery and murder. Both Jake and
Percy is then haul up inside a jail and then proceed to extradite both during the night time. However, Percy's father, Woodrow (Harrison Ford) an influential figure demands the release of his son from Sheriff Taggart (Keith Carradine) but during the intense stand-off, the whole town is attacked by many alien spacecraft which also kidnapped the town peoples including Percy and Sheriff. Jake, Ella Swenson and Woodrow unwittingly join forces together with some american natives to hunt down the aliens and rescue the town folks. During their journey, they discover also the reason behind the alien abduction and the reason why the aliens are here. Review:
I watch this film with not so high expectation due to the fact that it was quite a weak rating from other viewers but i decide to give it a try. It would say that the first 15 minutes was quite good and i was actually looking forward to the old western style stand-off between the Sheriff and Woodrow when all of a sudden, aliens started attacking.That was when the movie started to go downhill. The special effects was quite okay and the aliens are also good but somehow, the weak plot combined with silly logic seems to overwhelm the movie and it is unable to outshine itself. I felt that if the movie were to go on a different path, it would have been a better movie but it dwells on the aliens being a gold robbers - how silly is that. The movie dialogue also goes nowhere and it gives me an impression that they were only wasting time just to complete the screen time for the finale battle. The finale battle is also pretty weak and somehow it didn't make me feel anticipate to it, makes me feel that i want to turn off the movie off as soon as possible. I would say that Craig Daniels make a handsome hunky cowboy but to me, Paul Dano as Percy Dolarhyde actually steals the show as a papa's boy and is funny to watch. It is unfortunate that he was kidnapped early in the movie and only releases in the end of the movie. Harrison Ford is a waste of talent in this movie.
Verdict
I give this movie a 2 out of 5.
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