This is an interesting concept, unfortunately it's already been done. And there are so many tropes in this it's hard to appreciate anything... except for Olivia Wilde and Sam Rockwell. They can stay.

This is yet another movie that I thought I'd like more going in. There were so many reasons to think that this would be a hit with me. There's Daniel Craig Harrison Ford and Jon Favreau. Plus it's a movie with aliens which when mixed with cowboys seemed just strange enough to make it something a little different than all of the sequels and remakes of the summer movie season.

The first 30 minutes was the best thing about "C & A". The building of the story of the town and its residents was surprisingly good especially since I don't care much for westerns. Craig was also good throughout and Ford was serviceably gruff and likable at once. Then the aliens showed up and the whole thing drifted off into mediocrity.

One thing that is getting frustrating is that Hollywood doesn't know how to create an alien that is believably smart. This movie falls into the trap of presenting us with a technically advanced alien invader that is impossibly monstrous. These creatures are not believable as anything other than vicious animals. This movie is hardly the first to present such a failure but it might be the worst offender.

I wasn't impressed with any of the special effects either. Everything looks good for the most part but it all looks like good CGI. There's not a lot of realism on display. The battle between the cowboys (and indians) and the aliens drags on forever and once it's over all I really did was shrug my shoulders. The ending is similarly bland with a wrap up that is exactly what you'd expect it to be and for me that was a problem.

So...this was boring.

And that is pretty odd for a movie that has "Cowboys & Aliens" as its title. Its two things that usually are pretty far from boring. I love Westerns, I love Sci-Fi, this movie should have been a serious popcorn muncher.

And instead it was boring.

It's starts off really cool, the wounded man alone in the desert, clearly just after a fight...and then it gives you the very real feeling that you've seen it before, the only difference is the Alien technology on his wrist.

And then it hits a few cliches that you've also seen before in the troupes of Spaghetti Westerns.

By then, if it hasn't lost you then you are a really a trooper.

From there it goes into Science Fiction....or more science fiction...but that doesn't improve the film, you're already wondering what you're going to cook for dinner tomorrow.

By the time the big reveal hits and you seen the Indians...the dinner your thinking about has turned gourmet and it's seriously going to wow your girlfriend who was kind enough to watch it with you despite liking neither genre.

And by the end of the movie you want to take a nap and are wondering how something like that could have happened in a movie with "Cowboys & Aliens" as the title

Trust Steven Spielberg to manage to get aliens into just about every possible situation. He managed to squeeze them into Indiana Jones, which I wasn’t too thrilled about, and now he has managed to make a western movie with aliens.

As you might have guessed, we watched Cowboys & Aliens yesterday evening. Quite an okay movie. I wasn’t as disturbed by seeing aliens in a western movie as I feared. Harrison Ford is…well…Harrison Ford which is always a good thing.

The one thing that bugged me was that the alien bit was just illogical in places. We have a space traveling species from the stars and yet it was possible for a bunch of puny humans to not only walk straight up to their space ship, but to climb up on it as well and throw some old-fashioned dynamite sticks into it and blow up their hangar. Come on! And whenever these, supposedly advanced, aliens showed themselves they behaved like animals on crack.

Sure, it made for some nice effects off hacking and slashing aliens but it really brought down the movie as a whole.