Cowboys and Aliens

****

Couch Reviewer 

4 Stars

We have been waiting a long time to see Cowboys and Aliens, and it was definitely worth the wait and worth it not to have it ruined watching it in the theater.  At first we were kind of skeptical about the idea of a sci-fi western movie as this seemed to be the current trend, but who can go wrong with Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig?  The movie starts out good with some action in the beginning, then slows down for some time almost to the point of boring.  The downfall for this film is the 20 minutes of complete darkness where you cannot see what is happening, and you have to kind of guess for yourself what is going on.   The main character, Longren, remains a mystery for way too long and it begins to wear on your nerves as people continually ask him who he is and where he came from which results in the same response, "I don't know." Yet the woman in the film insists that he knows who he is and where he came from.  We were pleasantly surprised that the love interest portion of the film did not overrun it.  The aliens were some of the best we have seen, although CGI, the directors did not disappoint by having them be pathetic humans, but a savage race of creatures never seen.  Disappointment that the ending is the classic hero riding into the horizon, leaving the story kind of incomplete, we never really know why the aliens are there except to mine gold.  However, very nicely done movie, we are happy with the change and creativity/imagination from the same old bullshit of date movies.