Rotten
What started as 'True Grit'-meets-'War of the Worlds' ends up closer to - whisper it - 'Wild Wild West'.
Anna Smith, Time Out
Cowboys & Aliens
First Contact. Last Stand.
2011 · 1h 59m · PG-13
Action, Science Fiction, Thriller, Western
Directed by
Jon Favreau
Overview
A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
43%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Takes itself much too seriously, with acts of brutality outnumbering the gags.
Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Rotten
It's fun to think about what Cowboys & Aliens might have been if any creativity had crept past the title page.
Josh Levin, Slate
Rotten
Cowboys & Aliens is an agreeable time-killer, but I'll bet a couple of clever kids could make a livelier movie with a Woody puppet and a Predator doll.
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten
[A] phenomenally successful two-man war against narrative clarity and continuity.
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic
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