”Cowboys and Aliens,” from the director of the hit superhero flick “Iron Man,” should have been brainless fun, but it’s mostly just brainless. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly magazine filed the following review.
When a high-powered summer sci-fi action thriller is called “Cowboys and Aliens,” it’s a safe bet that audiences can plan to spend two hours watching cowboys and aliens.
What they may hope to see, however, is a film that fuses those two familiar pop-movie elements into a genre mash-up that’s greater than the sum of its clichés.
The first half hour of “Cowboys and Aliens” is promising. The gifted director Jon Favreau, coming off the two “Iron Man” films, stages a kind of mini-Rio Bravo set in a dusty mining town ruled over by a snarling boss played by Harrison Ford.
Into this Old West town walks a man with no name, or, rather, a steel-blue-eyed gunslinger played by Daniel Craig who can’t remember his name or anything else, for that matter. He has no idea how he landed in the desert with a stab wound in his side and a weird metal bracelet locked onto his wrist, but he sure knows how to stare down the local cutthroats.
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