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Arizona, 1878.\u00a0 Desert. Hot sun. A lone cowboy comes to suddenly, gasping and injured, obviously confused. He has a shackle on his wrist and tries to break it open with a rock, to no avail. In the sand, he finds a piece of a photograph of a pretty young woman.\u00a0 As he\u2019s puzzling over it, four men ride up behind him and say they\u2019re headed for the town of Absolution and does he have any idea how far they are from it?<\/p>\n

The cowboy (Daniel Craig), doesn\u2019t speak. The four men wonder aloud if there\u2019s a bounty on him and \u00a0one of them gets off his horse, rifle in\u00a0 hand, and we suddenly discover the lone cowboy not only fights well, but the mysterious shackle on his wrist is some sort of weapon.<\/p>\n

The dog that was with the four men follows the cowboy into Absolution, a town that lives in fear of\u00a0 Colonel Dolarhyde \u2013 Harrison Ford \u2013 and definitely doesn\u2019t welcome strangers. We learn that the cowboy doesn\u2019t have any memory of what his name is, who he is, what his past is. He\u2019s a blank slate.<\/p>\n

The cowboy isn\u2019t in town very long before the sheriff (Keith Caradine) realizes that the photo on a wanted poster looks very much like the lone cowboy. His name is Jake Lonergan and he\u2019s wanted for robbing a stage coach filled with gold and for the murder of a young woman. The sheriff and his boys\u00a0 enter the bar, where a mysterious woman is pestering Jake, asking him repeatedly if he remembers.\u00a0 The sheriff, of course, attempts to arrest Jake, a fight ensues in good ole Western style, and the mysterious woman is the one who knocks Jake out.\u00a0 As he\u2019s being put into a stage coach later to be taken to the federal marshal, she approaches the coach and apologizes. \u201cBut it was the only way I could keep you here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next scene is bizarre, unexpected, and riveting because you\u2019re reminded it\u2019s 1878, the Old West. Multiple lights appear at the end of the main road through town and people come out to watch, astonished, mesmerized. The lights grow larger, there\u2019s some sort of percussive boom, and suddenly, multiple UFOs zoom over the town \u2013 and unleash a firestorm of destruction.<\/p>\n

As people are diving for cover, dozens of them are whisked up into the air, the classic abduction scenario, except that they are lassoed by chains.<\/p>\n

From IMDB, written by Universal:<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known. Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he’s been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella, he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents-townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors-all in danger of annihilation. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.\u201d<\/p>\n

This movie is such great fun, a classic western with stage coach robbers, Apaches, mean cowboys, and the intriguing twist of nasty aliens, who actually have a motive for being on Earth \u2013 they\u2019re mining gold. The storytelling is tight, the pacing and conflict so perfect that your disbelief is suspended from the opening scenes.\u00a0 It has all the Spielberg touches \u2013 including a kid and a dog \u2013 and it\u2019s great to see Harrison Ford as a gruff, aging cowboy with a few things to learn about his own humanity. Daniel Craig is ideally cast as the archetypal outsider.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, we didn\u2019t read any of the reviews before we went to see the movie, so when we got home, I checked them out. The very elements we enjoyed about the movie, reviewers tore apart. I love it when genres are mixed \u2013 the reviewers not so much.\u00a0 From the L.A. Times:<\/p>\n

It’s hard to say what is most depressing about “Cowboys & Aliens” \u2014 the film itself, or the fact that this was the best movie a posse of major Hollywood players could come up with.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Our advice? Ignore the reviews.\u00a0 Cowboys and Aliens<\/em> is a great, imaginative romp.<\/p>\n

Here’s the trailer link: cowboys and aliens<\/a><\/p>\n

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