It's hard to argue with Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford in cowboy fits.
Remember that time Jon Favreau directed a movie starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford as cowboys who fought aliens — and it was titled, rather brilliantly, Cowboys & Aliens? No, that moment wasn't a pop culture-induced fever dream. Favreau currently co-shepherds the live-action Star Wars television universe alongside his partner in crime Dave Filoni, but in 2011, hot off the heels of Iron Man 2, Favreau swung for the fences in this attempt at a science fiction/Western hybrid.
‘Cowboys & Aliens’ Is Exactly What It Sounds Like I'm beholden to admit my bias before we proceed further. I vividly remember sitting in the dark with my nerdy friends as we awaited the midnight premiere of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part 1. The teaser for Cowboys & Aliens unfolded to an unsuspecting full house. Harrison Ford's in cowboy gear? Okay, sure, but why are things exploding? The title card came up, and the theater lost it with raucous laughter.
Certainly, the cast and crew's devotion to capturing the traditional Western aesthetics plays in Cowboys & Aliens' favor. Acting-wise, everyone plays the premise as straight as a board. There's not so much as a twitch of a smile, no meta in-jokes or self-aware observations. Ford and Craig fit the genre like a tailored glove. As Jake Lonergan, an amnesiac criminal who escaped alien abduction, Craig weaponizes his steely blue gaze.
One of the film's standout sequences, however, employs the "less is more" logic. The town stares as the spaceships, filtered through the night clouds as beautiful floating lights, draw irrevocably closer. Favreau's invoking the majesty of the ship from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but this beauty is cold and ominous. He nails the uneasy atmosphere and bubbling tension, so when the aliens fire upon the townspeople , those booming explosions hit.
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