Cowboys & Aliens (2011) movie poster

Cowboys & Aliens (2011)

"First Contact. Last Stand."
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👍 73%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 47%
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Runtime
1h 59m
Rated
PG-13
Country
India, United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
5.6/10 (5,334 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
44%
Metacritic
50

Cast

Daniel Craig as Jake Lonergan · 73% avg
Harrison Ford as Woodrow Dolarhyde · 75% avg
Olivia Wilde as Ella Swenson · 66% avg
Sam Rockwell as Doc · 70% avg
Adam Beach as Nat Colorado · 69% avg
Paul Dano as Percy Dolarhyde · 71% avg
Noah Ringer as Emmet Taggart
Keith Carradine as Sheriff John Taggart · 68% avg

Is Cowboys & Aliens good?

Most people think so. 73% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 47%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#1036 / 1971 · Action
Rank in its year
#121 / 241 · 2011
Rank among its director's films
#8 / 9 · Jon Favreau

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Cowboys & Aliens is a 2011 American science fiction Western directed by Jon Favreau. Daniel Craig stars as Jake Lonergan, a mysterious amnesiac stranger who rides into the frontier town of Absolution in 1873 wearing a strange metallic bracelet on his wrist that he can't remove. When alien spacecraft attack the town and abduct several residents, Jake discovers the bracelet is a weapon and must join forces with the town's iron-fisted cattle baron Woodrow Dolarhyde, played by Harrison Ford, to rescue the captives and fight the aliens.

Cowboys & Aliens combined the genre promises of its title with A-list star power and blockbuster production values, but the finished film was criticized for taking its inherently absurd premise too seriously. Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford brought gravitas that the material didn't quite support. Jon Favreau staged impressive Western-meets-sci-fi action sequences, particularly the final battle at the alien base.

Cowboys & Aliens earned $174 million worldwide on a $163 million budget.

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