2011 · action · sci-fi · thriller
Cowboys & Aliens
Directed by Jon Favreau1h 59m2011
A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.
Our read: Cowboys & Aliens (2011) reads as a heavy, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- heavy
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- cold
- twisty
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