Jon Favreau’s (Iron Man, Iron Man 2) ‘Cowboys & Aliens’, despite its stellar cast of Hollywood heavyweights that includes Harrison Ford, Daniel Craig, Sam Rockwell, and Olivia Wilde, largely disappoints. The strange blend of the Sci-Fi and Western genre makes it an intriguing mixture, delivering decent amounts of humour, action, and adventure, but fails to provide the ‘wit’ and ‘wow’ factor of a good summer blockbuster, like its previous Paramount Pictures predecessor, ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’.
A standout performance is given to Harrison Ford, who plays the tough-loving, no-nonsense, ball-breaking Colonel of Absolution. The veteran provided most of the much-needed laughs and was a hoot in comparison to Daniel Craig’s silent glowering and Olivia Wilde’s wide-eyed, wispy, and blank-stares. The film took itself too seriously, and I felt that the writers and the posse of Hollywood heavyweights behind it (hello Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard) could have done much more with the cast and the story than the one given to us.
The film is partly enjoyable due to the constant brutality offered to moviegoers – and who doesn’t love a gore and bloodshed film fest – but it isn’t extremely noteworthy. The title of the film suggests a good, fun, summer blockbuster, but in the end it isn’t as amusing and kooky as the title suggests. It’s a somewhat entertaining film and moviegoers may enjoy it, but in all honesty, it is rather disposable and forgettable.
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