So is it any wonder its reception was lukewarm at best?
Craig plays the Western cliché Man with No Name, but his character finds himself with amnesia and a strange device locked to his wrist. When he is brought to a nearby town, the ragtag people of the West must band together to fight off invasion from aliens!
What is most obvious here is that the film plays itself out like a Western with sci-fi elements, rather than sci-fi with Western settings. What I mean is the film is remarkably slow paced (for... you know, alien invasion) but when the action kicks in it does prove to be bloody and eye catching. I love science fiction mixing with other genres.
However, there does seem to be a lack of characterisation here, and precise storytelling around the characters. It is a fun blockbuster for sure, but the characters often feel uninteresting or disassociated with one another. I believe this could be due to the film having seven writers. Seven people worked on this screenplay. I mean... seriously what the hell?
It does exactly what it says: Cowboys versus Aliens with an all star cast and bang-for-your-buck, but it might lack some of Warrior's Way's "cowboys versus ninjas" fun self-awareness.
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