I was excited, maybe overly excited to watch "Cowboys & Aliens". Having not seen it in the theatre, I strolled over to the local Red Box, bought the disc, popcorn and gummi bears, then happily strolled home. In preparation, I purposely had not asked friends about the film or read any reviews. Come on, it's produced by Brian Grazer, Ron Howard and Spielberg! Starring Indiana Jones and James Bond! This is a home run! Expecting "High Plains Drifter" with a creepy and possibly funny twist, I quickly pressed play. That was the last interesting thing that happened other than a rogue gummy bear finding it's way down my t-shirt.
The performances of Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig are good! Special kudo's to Paul Dano playing Harrison's son.(You might know him as the brother in "Little Miss Sunshine" or Klitz from "The Girl Next Door".) It appears that he may have had a bigger role that was perhaps left on the cutting room floor. With such a talented cast including lovely Olivia Wilde, what could go wrong?
The answer is as common as a summer block buster...the story and suspense are simply not there. No cohesive plot. Our aliens seem to be a low I.Q. mob of clawed meanies with cool toys that even they don't understand. Multi-million dollar action sequences don't even save this picture. Ah... perhaps a little Indiana Jones type humor to spice it up and keep us on the ride? Nope. A nefarious plan of domination that has been planned by the aliens and carried out by their henchmen human collaborators? Nope. The only explanation for the goblins being on earth is "to experiment on us" and "they want gold". Those green, computer generated dogs with weird hands couldn't pass my high school biology class.
I fully realize that my expectations were higher than Mt. Everest on a clear day, but you know what? As they say in the Editor’s bay "You can't polish a turd".
The performances of Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig are good! Special kudo's to Paul Dano playing Harrison's son.(You might know him as the brother in "Little Miss Sunshine" or Klitz from "The Girl Next Door".) It appears that he may have had a bigger role that was perhaps left on the cutting room floor. With such a talented cast including lovely Olivia Wilde, what could go wrong?
The answer is as common as a summer block buster...the story and suspense are simply not there. No cohesive plot. Our aliens seem to be a low I.Q. mob of clawed meanies with cool toys that even they don't understand. Multi-million dollar action sequences don't even save this picture. Ah... perhaps a little Indiana Jones type humor to spice it up and keep us on the ride? Nope. A nefarious plan of domination that has been planned by the aliens and carried out by their henchmen human collaborators? Nope. The only explanation for the goblins being on earth is "to experiment on us" and "they want gold". Those green, computer generated dogs with weird hands couldn't pass my high school biology class.
I fully realize that my expectations were higher than Mt. Everest on a clear day, but you know what? As they say in the Editor’s bay "You can't polish a turd".
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