Cowboys & Aliens ((Blu-ray+DVD+Digital Copy in Blu-ray Packaging) Reviews

Cowboys & Aliens doesn’t quite make the full round up of talent, story and action that you would expect, given the people who made the movie.  In theory, a comic book adaptation starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, directed by the man who directed the first two Iron Man movies and produced by a team including Steven Spielberg and Ron Howard should be a home run.  And yet this one just doesn’t come together.  There are some good inventions here and there, some great bits of widescreen cinematography, and some good climactic action moments, but the movie is just too long and too slow without enough material to justify the length.  There’s some confusion here in the genre – in that the filmmakers are trying to present a classic Western, when the actual material is more of a comic book hybrid that favors the science fiction side of the equation.  The new Blu-ray edition presents two versions of the film in solid high definition picture and sound, along with a raft of extras, including a director’s commentary, an excellent series of interviews, and an improved rendition of the “Second Screen” functionality introduced earlier this year.  I can certainly recommend a rental of this title for the extras alone, but the movie itself is a bit dicier.

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