This is unfortunate especially for the Bond series, but it translates to his other film’s here including this one. He’s the stoic action hero to a tee visually, between rippling muscles and piercing blue eyes, but he rarely exudes anything resembling personality.
taking on aliens with a wink and a smile, but Craig doesn’t have a funny bone in his body, and I have to believe the movie was shifted to reflect that.įor all the praise Craig has drawn as the new James Bond, I’ve never been in his camp as a leading actor. left the project and was replaced by Daniel Craig. I feel like this movie had to have gone through a serious shift in tone at some point, probably after Robert Downey Jr. Jake and Dolarhyde, former enemies, now must band together with the rest of the town’s survivors (among them Sam Rockwell’s skittish Doc and Olivia Wilde’s mysterious Ellen) and get their people back come hell, high water or a civilization thousands of years more advanced than theirs.
They blow up most of the local establishments and snatch up half the town’s residents. He wanders into town, causes some trouble, and unfortunately everyone ELSE still realizes he’s an outlaw, and he’s soon headed to prison along with the douchebag son (Paul Dano) of local powerful cattle rancher, Woodrow Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford).īut before his transport can be arranged, aliens attack, which will always change your plans for the day. The serious man in charge is Jake Lonergan(Daniel Craig), an outlaw who wakes up in the desert with no memory, a cauterized wound and an alien weapon strapped to his hand. Cowboys! Aliens! Just throw in some dinosaurs and we’ll officially have the most ridiculous movie ever made.īut unfortunately we’re only two thirds of the way there, and Cowboys & Aliens tries to convince you that it’s NOT ridiculous, but rather a legitimate concept for an action film that you should take very, very seriously.