Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig star in the sci fi Western mash up Cowb
Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig star in the sci-fi/Western mash-up Cowb... Movies for Grownups
Directed by Jon Favreau
Rated PG-13, Runtime: 118 mins.
Stars: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde There’s a paradox in physics that has confounded scientists since Isaac Newton, and it goes something like this: When you look at light as a wave, it behaves like a wave. When you look at it as a particle, it behaves like a particle. See also:
The notion occurred to me while I marveled at the masterful new science fiction/western clone, Cowboys & Aliens. As a western, the film churns up enough trail dust and gunpowder to choke John Wayne’s horse. As science fiction, it unleashes fantastic technologies and hideous monsters right out of Cloverfield and War of the Worlds. The dichotomy of the two genres is established right from the start, and by the climactic Shootout at the Extraterrestrial Corral we’ve passed between them so many times the borderline has been thoroughly trampled.
The plot is as delightfully clear as the title: Late in the 1800s, America’s frontier is invaded by unfriendly, super-sophisticated creatures from outer space, and all the local white settlers and Native Americans have to fight back with are bows and arrows, six-shooters and the occasional stick of dynamite. Who’ll win? Put it this way: In their corner, a bunch of slimy, scary killing machines that run faster than a puma and impale their enemies with dagger-like arms. In our corner: Indiana Jones and James Bond. That’s right — Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig are all that stand between the Wild West and Armageddon, and in the end, it’s not really a fair fight. As an outlaw who finds himself an unwilling combatant against interstellar forces, Craig creates an intriguing character — lean, craggy and quiet, sort of an athletic Gary Cooper. Ford, playing a bitter, bleak-hearted cattle rancher, seems more in his natural element, growling at the grownups, allowing a reluctant smile in the direction of the children and basically kicking alien butt as only Indy/Han Solo could, even way past retirement age.
Review Cowboys & Aliens
Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig star in this sci-fi gunfight at the O K Corral
Courtesy Universal Pictures Daniel Craig as Jake Lonergan in the new sci-fi/Western hybrid Cowboys & Aliens.Directed by Jon Favreau
Rated PG-13, Runtime: 118 mins.
Stars: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde There’s a paradox in physics that has confounded scientists since Isaac Newton, and it goes something like this: When you look at light as a wave, it behaves like a wave. When you look at it as a particle, it behaves like a particle. See also:
The notion occurred to me while I marveled at the masterful new science fiction/western clone, Cowboys & Aliens. As a western, the film churns up enough trail dust and gunpowder to choke John Wayne’s horse. As science fiction, it unleashes fantastic technologies and hideous monsters right out of Cloverfield and War of the Worlds. The dichotomy of the two genres is established right from the start, and by the climactic Shootout at the Extraterrestrial Corral we’ve passed between them so many times the borderline has been thoroughly trampled.
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The plot is as delightfully clear as the title: Late in the 1800s, America’s frontier is invaded by unfriendly, super-sophisticated creatures from outer space, and all the local white settlers and Native Americans have to fight back with are bows and arrows, six-shooters and the occasional stick of dynamite. Who’ll win? Put it this way: In their corner, a bunch of slimy, scary killing machines that run faster than a puma and impale their enemies with dagger-like arms. In our corner: Indiana Jones and James Bond. That’s right — Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig are all that stand between the Wild West and Armageddon, and in the end, it’s not really a fair fight. As an outlaw who finds himself an unwilling combatant against interstellar forces, Craig creates an intriguing character — lean, craggy and quiet, sort of an athletic Gary Cooper. Ford, playing a bitter, bleak-hearted cattle rancher, seems more in his natural element, growling at the grownups, allowing a reluctant smile in the direction of the children and basically kicking alien butt as only Indy/Han Solo could, even way past retirement age.