It is doubtful if there are any real spoilers in this review, because if you’re really thinking that a Hollywood action movie can turn out bad and let the bad guys win, then you’re probably five. Or an alien. Or a cowboy from back in time.
Anyway I’m gonna be very strict on this one, because people in the industry have had a lot of time on their hands to figure out how to make a good action Science Fiction movie.
This one isn’t quite so shiny.
[THE SPOILER PART]
The story is dumb. First there are cowboys, then aliens come and start messing around with them, kidnapping and all.. Then the cowboys get very angry, unite with indians, proclaim a notorious thief and murderer to be their leader, fight back with knives, pistols, guns and arrows, and defeat an alien race that has come from a different solar system with all their technology. Interesting.
Oh and BTW, there *is* one alien weapon in the movie (besides the railguns on small aircrafts they use to destroy their city), but that one single alien weapon (a wrist gun of some sort) is in the possession of that notorious murderous thief. He stole it from the aliens after being comatosed.
Interesting.
So aliens have a spaceship that can fly through interstellar space, but carry only one weapon, wich they allow to be taken away from them.
Very interesting.
[END OF SPOILER PART]
Did I mention that the story is dumb? Okay, nevertheless, I liked everything that’s “western” in this movie: the stinky clothes you can almost smell, the “eastwoody” scenery you think you almost remember from somewhere, the bar, barfights, cowboy accents.. I just didn’t quite like the kung-fu of the main character in that all, but it was ok.
All in all, a movie you can actually watch without shooting your self in the foot out off sheer boredom, see some alien machinery, watch Olivia Wilde going arround all cute and acting tough, see the last James Bond in smelly cowboy clothes with an “Even-James-Bond-doesn’t-have-this-kind-of-a-gadget” arm weapon, and wonder about the alien’s IQs.
And what did the aliens need the gold for again?
Nevermind, they just needed it.
Fact of life: aliens want gold.
