BY EMILY BOUDREAU
Published November 17, 2010
In a warped science fiction version of a classic American frontier story, it’s cowboys against aliens in "Cowboys & Aliens."
"Cowboys & Aliens"
Universal
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Somehow Daniel Craig (who looks just as good in a cowboy hat as he does in his Bond tux) winds up in the desert with amnesia, arousing the suspicions of a cantankerous Harrison Ford. The only clue to Craig’s past is the mysterious metal bracelet around his wrist. Trouble soon follows like a roving tumbleweed through the swinging doors of a dark saloon. Before long, the people of the quiet, Western town are being sucked into spaceships by tractor beams.
There have been space cowboys before, but cowboys from space might be a little questionable. As if to somehow authenticate the movie’s credibility, the preview makes sure to emphasize the presence of Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard as producers. Not that this really helps the fact that the movie is basically about cowboys fighting aliens through fields of cacti.
It doesn’t really seem like a fair fight, either. The aliens have all this high tech equipment, and the cowboys are riding around on horses waving torches around. Still, the cowboys have Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford; that has to count for something, right?
