Why this movie has a rotten tomatoes score of just 45% boggles my mind. Independence Day has a score of 60%. They are both about alien invasion and saving the world. Cowboys probably has a better cast.
Daniel Craig is the bewildered hero, Harrison Ford and Sam Rockwell co-star with Olivia "I'm in everything in 2011" Wilde is the female lead. John Favreau directs so Cowboys and Aliens rolls along at a decent pace and has ample comic relief. The movie is called Cowboys and Aliens, so I don't know what sort of screenplay people were expecting. It's a fairly standard alien invasion plot, just set back in the wild west.
Favreau combines CGI and some awesome horse stunts to give the actions sequences as realistic a feel as possible. I reckon they managed to get every kind of horse stunt possible into this movie. Congratulations to the wranglers! Also there is plenty of homage paid to the western genre and the urge to have the hero imitate Indiana Jones and not leave his hat behind no matter the situation was clearly too strong to resist.
Cowboys and Aliens is very enjoyable and is certainly on a par with Independence Day. Watch and enjoy.
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