Cowboys & Aliens

First contact. Last stand.

James Bond does a Jason Bourne. Set back in the Wild West, a cowboy wakes up in the desert, unable to remember who he is or how he got there. He wanders into the local town, and is arrested for a crime he has no recollection of. Luckily just as things are getting difficult for him, some alien spaceships arrive and start stealing people and gold. In the battle for survival, everyone in town has to pull together with the local Indians to ensure the survival of planet Earth.

117 minutes.
No persons under 13 (Language, Violence).
Action, Period piece, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western.

I wish James was here ...

Credits

Cast	Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia WIlde, Sam Rockwell, Clancy Brown, Adam Beach, Paul Dano, Keith Carradine
Director	Jon Favreau
Screenplay	Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Steve Oederkerk, from the comic by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg
Music	Harry Gregson-Williams
Cinematography	Matthew Libatique
Editing	Dan Lebental, Jim May
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2011
Produced by	Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, Relativity Media, Imagine Entertainment, K/O Paper Products, Fairview Entertainment, Platinum Studios

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Drama, science fiction, action
Language	Strong
Nudity	Brief
Sex	Brief
Violence	Strong
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	Brief
Comments	None
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Hollywod Reporter	10
Die Burger Jeanne Calitz Die kroeks kom nou van ander planeet	10
Cape Times Alien invasion meets the Wild West	15
Box Office Todd Gilchrist From the title alone there's hope that Cowboys & Aliens is unusual and fresh, but in truth it's just mundane. Half as weird as it should be, it's painfully terrestrial.	5
Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert Cowboys & Aliens has without any doubt the most cockamamie plot I've witnessed in many a moon.	15
ReelViews James Berardinelli Cowboys & Aliens is a mashup of a mediocre Western and a mediocre science fiction story. The resulting film is far better than the sum of its two seemingly disparate parts.	15
Rolling Stone Peter Travers The mash-up of cowboys and aliens doesn't do either camp any favors. How are we supposed to work up a rooting interest when both sides are shooting blanks?	10
ScreenIt T. Durgin Wow, was there a chance at summer popcorn greatness missed here.	12
Metacritic.com 41 critics	10
Rottentomatoes critics 192 critics	11
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford are as dependably appealing as ever, but they're let down by director Jon Favreau's inability to smooth Cowboys & Aliens' jarring tonal shifts.	9
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	11
Movie Review Intelligence 51 critics	11
What the People say
Internet 13627 Netizens Childish Sci-Fi, Worn out plot.	13
Average .. 56%	11