Cowboys & Aliens

I came into this movie with no expectations at all. The only thing i thought was that a movie with the name “Cowboys and Aliens” should not be boring, hopefully Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, and Olivia Wilde could at least make it entertaining. In the end i just got reminded of movies like “Terminator Salvation”, i got some nice eye candy with some really great special effects, but just like “Terminator Salvation” or “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”, there are quite lot of things happening at the same time, but not something that keeps you entertained.

When Cowboys & Aliens start you will meet Jake Lonegan who is played by Daniel Craig. Jake wakes up in the desert with a bracelet on his arm. Jake do not remember how he got the bracelet, he don’t even remember who he is or where he have been. Jake goes to a nearby town where he will make some dodging mishaps and in the end is corned by Elle who is played by Olivia Wilde Woodrow Dolarhyde who is played by Harrison Ford. Soon after this there is an alien invasion which takes the town people away, from here on the story takes of as Jake must team up with Dolarhyde to get their people back and discover who he really is.

The story for the movie was decent with the conflict between the cowboys and the aliens, but i do no feel that it was as strong as it could have been. The few emotional scenes we had was quite weak, i did not get any emotion out of them at all. You will get to se a romance between to character develope, but for certain reasons it will not persist.

If we take a look at the actor i believe that Olivia Wilde stood out the most as she really came into hes character with amazing quality. In the start she was looking like a background character creeping in the shadows, but as the movie went on she became more and more one of the main characters as we got to know more and more about her.

Daniel Craig also pulled of hes role really great, i would believe that he is well-versed with it by now, given the roles that have made him famous, he was good but not overly engaging as he kept the viewer at bay for the most of the film, hes dialogues are very few and short, almost as short as Dolarhydes temper.

Harrison Ford gave us a snippy, grumpy, gruff sort of character, which the viewer at certain points can easily make the distinction between simply reading a line versus playing a part naturally and convincingly. Then again, it’s difficult to blame him for his vile temper.

In the end this is not a bad movie, but i was not satisfied with what it could have been. I liked the casting and the filmmakers, bit i just ended up asking “what happened?”.