Review of Cowboys & Aliens (2011) by Alvin A — 16 Oct 2012

Urgh, what could've been a campy good old time fun mixing two completly different concepts, turns out to be just another way too serious blockbuster that doesn't have many interesting things going on.

Having Daniel Craig or a rock with a cool wrist blaster would be the same, Olivia Wilde's character is complete inconsequent and nonsense from start to finnish, Harrison Ford is all over the place, Paul Dano is annoying as fuck, Sam Rockwell is a waste of space and since you can't have any relatable character to care for there is very little to root for in the end.

Cinematography is cool and features some nice vistas, the aliens are a tad interesting but the situations they're in are so cliché it's painful: yes, there's a scene where a little boy is hiding from an alien, when he thinks the beast is gone, he sighs and *surprise* the alien shows up to growl on his face for a little "scare" you can see for miles. Yep, it's that kind of movie.