pulling the feels…
pulling the feels…
FUN
7
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
40
how much it moved you
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Read from 49 comments (46 from Metacritic, 3 from TMDB reviews) — 10 of them described how it moves.
➖ steady — Holds one level all the way. Hard going most of the way through.
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“It's starts off really cool, the wounded man alone in the desert, clearly just after a fight”
GenerationofSwine · TMDB reviews ↗
“By then, if it hasn't lost you then you are a really a trooper. From there it goes into Science Fiction....or more science fiction...but that doesn't improve the film, you're already wondering what you're going to cook for dinner tomorrow.”
GenerationofSwine · TMDB reviews ↗
“bad pacing for the builds”
Robwinz · Metacritic ↗
“halfway in you lose all interest to the story whatsoever”
python2000 · Metacritic ↗
“Most scenes are boring, slow”
Gary64 · Metacritic ↗
“The first quarter of the movie gets off too a strong start”
Buckwheatjones1 · Metacritic ↗
Read 25 Aug 2026 · confidence 83% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
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“This movie, saddle sores and all, is a lot of fun.”
Steve Persall, Tampa Bay Times · 83
“The key to its success lies in the determination by everyone involved to play the damn thing straight. Even the slightest goofiness, the tiniest touch of camp, and the whole thing would blow sky high. But it doesn't.”
Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter · 80
“While Cowboys & Aliens offers little in the way of sociological insight (except perhaps giving the white man a taste of his own resource-stealing medicine), it's still a ripping good ride.”
Peter Debruge, Variety · 80
“A simple entertainment in a summer of overcomplicated disappointments. Also much harder-edged than you may have expected.”
Dan Jolin, Empire · 80
“A hell-for-leather action film with a healthy serving of scares. It really is "Aliens" on the open plains, "Independence Day" for the nation's centennial, and what the movie lacks in originality and stick-to-your-ribs Western authenticity, it makes up for in pell-mell multiplex entertainment.”
Ty Burr, Boston Globe · 75
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 25 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
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“bad pacing for the builds”
Robwinzabout 0–100% inread it ↗
“halfway in you lose all interest to the story whatsoever”
python2000about 50–100% inread it ↗
“Most scenes are boring, slow”
Gary64about 0–100% inread it ↗
“The first quarter of the movie gets off too a strong start”
Buckwheatjones1about 0–25% inread it ↗
“It's starts off really cool, the wounded man alone in the desert, clearly just after a fight”
GenerationofSwineabout 0–15% inread it ↗
“By then, if it hasn't lost you then you are a really a trooper. From there it goes into Science Fiction....or more science fiction...but that doesn't improve the film, you're already wondering what you're going to cook for dinner tomorrow.”
GenerationofSwineabout 15–50% inread it ↗
“Trust Steven Spielberg to manage to get aliens into just about every possible situation. He managed to squeeze them into Indiana Jones, which I wasn’t too thrilled about, and now he has managed to make a western movie with aliens. As you might have guessed, we watched Cowboys & Aliens yesterday evening. Quite an okay movie. I wasn’t as disturbed by seeing aliens in a western movie as I feared. Harrison Ford is…well…Harrison Ford which is always a good thing. The one thing that bugged me wa”
Dark Jediread it ↗
“This is an interesting concept, unfortunately it's already been done. And there are so many tropes in this it's hard to appreciate anything... except for Olivia Wilde and Sam Rockwell. They can stay.”
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