Cowboys & Aliens

2011 119 min ★ 5.7 Action, Science Fiction, Thriller, Western

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.

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Cast

Daniel Craig

Jake Lonergan

Harrison Ford

Woodrow Dolarhyde

Olivia Wilde

Ella Swenson

Sam Rockwell

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Adam Beach

Nat Colorado

Paul Dano

Percy Dolarhyde

Noah Ringer

Emmet Taggart

Keith Carradine

Sheriff John Taggart

Clancy Brown

Meacham

Walton Goggins

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Details

Director

Jon Favreau

Screenplay

Alex Kurtzman

Tagline

"First Contact. Last Stand."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$163,000,000

Revenue

$174,822,325

Production

DreamWorks Pictures, Universal Pictures, Reliance Entertainment, Relativity Media, Imagine Entertainment, K/O Paper Products, Fairview Entertainment, Platinum Studios

Reviews

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Andres Gomez

May 26, 2013

★ 1.5/10

As bad as it seems.

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Dark Jedi

February 20, 2018

★ 7/10

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. ...

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tmdb15435519

May 11, 2021

★ 5/10

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.

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GenerationofSwine

January 14, 2023

★ 1/10

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 v...