How To Catch An Extraterrestrial With A Lasso...

When i first started this blog I was planning on only writing about movies and series which I personally loved but then i thought...why?
Moderate or even bad movies deserve some credit too, even if it is negative credit.
So the other day I went to see such a movie called Cowboys & Aliens.
I knew in advance that I wasn't going to be too fond of this one but I like some action and massive FX too from time to time.
Anyways let's get to the point shall we?

The plot: Jake Lonergan (Daniel Craig) wakes up in the middle of the dessert not knowing where he is or even who he is. The first thing he notices is this weird, big, metal bracelet around his wrist which he can't get off and he also notices a big messy wound on his abdomen. He picks hisself up, dust hisself off and follows a track back to a little mining town called absolution. While getting his wound treated by a local preacher (Clancy Brown) guns start going off outside. The preacher and Jake go outside to take a look and find out it's just a drunk looking for trouble and of cource the big hero of the movie takes care of him by knocking him down. But what he doesn't know is that the drunk is the son of one of the most powerful people in the Wild West called Woodrow Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford). In the meanwhile the sheriff finds out that there's a thousand dollar bounty on Jake's head if he's delivered to a federal marshall. While in imprisonement waiting for the federal marshalls some strange explosions take place outside. Again, Jake being the hero, he escapes and saves the town by using his bracelet (which turns out to be an alien weapon) to take a spaceship down and scaring the aliens away.
But a dozen towns people are taken by the aliens so the men who are left from a posse to find the alien hideout and save the people who have been kidnapped by them. And so the journey starts with a lot of complications on the road from ambushes by other gangs to multipal alien attacks.

I can say that this was a pretty fun movie to watch in the theather with adreanline rushing trough your vains thanks to the explosive scenes and loud thriller music in the background but if you didn't get the chance to watch it on the big screen don't bother renting or buying it unless you're a big sci-fi and/or western fan. Otherwise you will most probably be dissapointed. The script is pretty dull and cliché, the scenes are poorly allined making you feel like this was meant to be a four hour movie crammed into 120 minutes of ups and down (mostly downs) making your head spin in a bad, non-pulp fiction way which is a good kind of head spinning. You start off pretty excited when you sit down with you popcorn and soda but when the film is finally over you wonder why in the world you payed full price for something like that.
But you can't always get what you want and there has to be a couple of poorly execited movies to make the big hits of the year seem even more epic.

The Verdict: I think it's pretty clear by now that Cowboys & Aliens wasn't my kind of movie.
I don't see the use of thinking of even more arguments to make my point.
The movie was simply too hollywoodized (yes I just made that up).
But because Daniel Craigs preformance wasn't too bad and the animated FX was pretty awesome, the score isn't as low as you might think...
So Cowboys & Aliens, you still got a D with 5.2/10
Hey, stiffen up that upper lip...it could have been worse ;)