Oddly, though, Ella (Olivia Wilde), a gun-toting gal who hangs around the local saloon, recognizes him. Less surprising, this mysterious outsider played by Daniel Craig either has no name or simply ain't tellin' what it is. Quite unnaturally, he has an unexplained, heap powerful weapon-bracelet of some sort around his wrist. Naturally, it isn't long before we learn that he's a rather bad hombre. And, in the best horse opera tradition, a stranger has moseyed his way into town.
It's 1875 this go-round, somewhere in New Mexico cattle and mining country. It's as if they specifically chose us to engage, invade, displace, enslave or even perhaps eat. With relatively few exceptions, the extraterrestrials always seem to come during our time.
Yet, for all the talk of incongruity, the movie calls attention to a conceit we humans generally harbor when it comes to alien visitation. More importantly, however, there is that hypothetical synergism and those fanciful battle match-ups that come of mixing eras. All the same, there's plenty of action thanks to a story full of good ideas, albeit never written to its best advantage by no less than eight scribes. Of course I'll preface that it's no great shakes. So I figure I'll call and tell him that he'll probably like director Jon Favreau's similarly anachronistic "Cowboys & Aliens." especially those sword and sandal epics intermeshed with dinosaurs and a healthy peppering of mythical monsters. Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford could use a good blaster at their side in the Western shoot'em up 'Cowboys & Aliens.'Įver since we were little, my best friend Bob has loved films where worlds collided.