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Cowboys and Aliens started life as a graphic novel, and seems it was going to be a Robert Downey Jnr film right out of the gate after Iron Man, but some how along the way Downey got replaced with Daniel Craig and so now you’ve got a film with James Bond and Indiana Jones in the wild west fighting aliens with Quorra from Tron along for the ride. Seems that should be all kinds of awesome to a geek.

The story is James Bond is the man with no name, no memory and a kick ass alien gun on his arm. Han Solo is the rich man in the area who brings all the business to the local town, and his son is the town drunk causing all sorts of problems but they can’t really do anything about because they’ll lose his father’s business. So when Daniel Craig shows up in town and stands up to the kid he causes all sorts of problems, not least finding out he’s actually a wanted man and gets locked up in the jail with the kid. Later that night Harrison Ford shows up to get his kid the aliens also show up and start kidnapping townsfolk, including his son, the Sheriff and the bartenders wife. They decide to get together and go off in search of the aliens and their family and friends.

And this is where the review falls down, because I find I have nothing to really say about the film. It just didn’t really make an impression on me, it wasn’t bad, it wasn’t good it was just there. The effects work are done well, the story works well enough but it doesn’t really make a lasting impression and generally I will see films multiple times when the chance presents itself, but with this I really didn’t want to see it again when a friend asked me to see it, so I can’t really say I recommend it, but if you’re interested in seeing it I have nothing to say you shouldn’t see it either.