In keeping with the western format, the town of Absolution includes a grisly preacher called Meacham (Clancy Brown), who also happens to be fair hand with a gun. Still, Cowboys & Aliens is a worthy continuation of director Jon Favreau’s growing action line-up that already includes Iron Man and Iron Man 2. And for a species capable of interstellar travel, someone should tell them to stop running straight at the guys with the guns. The aliens add some real jump-factor to the film but seem to burn through an improbable number of cowboys in the film’s 118 minutes. It’s a particularly brave role for Harrison, who finally plays someone close to his own age and a bad guy. Craig and Ford were doing well reviving the western genre. Part of me was disappointed when the aliens turned up. In the space of a few action-packed minutes of screen time he discovers he’s a wanted outlaw called Jake Lonergan, his girlfriend has been kidnapped by aliens and his ‘bracelet’ is a powerful energy weapon – which comes in handy when Dolarhyde and Lonergan find themselves at ground zero of an extraterrestrial invasion of the wild west. Craig rides into the aptly town of Absolution and almost immediately falls foul of the local despot, Colonel Woodrow Dolarhyde, played by Harrison Ford.
When he’s accosted by wandering bounty hunters, he’s even more surprised to discover that he’s something of a 19th century killing machine. Thankfully aliens are yet to be represented at the Anti-Discrimination Commission and can be safely sold as universally evil.ĭaniel Craig wakes up in the Arizona desert, a battered cowboy with no memory of why he would be lying in the dust without boots and a strange metal device clamped around his wrist. In an age where film producers can no longer blithely make entire racial groups the bad guys, someone had to be found to face off against the cowboys. COVID-19 Pandemic Coverage – Hope Media Statement.