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Rating: 4/5

Review: "Cowboys and Aliens movie review"

Jon, the director of the two Iron Man movies, choose to step down from the director's chair of the Iron Man franchise and direct this western movie. The question is "Is it a wise choice?" I would say probably. Because of the second Iron Man movie, I felt that it is good to have another director for the franchise. Not to say Iron Man 2 is bad but Jon did not actually make the second movie better than the first. Iron Man 2 is still entertaining but it lacks the things the first Iron Man has. One of them is the intensity. So I was surprised that Cowboys and Aliens is intense, the first half and hour is breath-taking intense. Jon manages to make a comeback with this which is good for him.

The story: Daniel Crag plays a mysterious guy who wakes up in the middle of nowhere in the first scene of the movie. His mysterious past makes the first half and hour intense and filled with suspense as we have not known what his true character is like. The first aliens' attack is in the first half and hour too. Daniel's character along with other characters including a mysterious woman ride on horses to save their love ones who are being caught by aliens. It is a good fun adventure movie. Its action scenes are not too bad. The first one is good, filled with intensity and suspense and thrilling. But the others excluding the climax are brief and not very thrilling. But for a Jon's movie, it is good in terms of action. Jon's movies like the Iron Man movies are not that good in action wise. They even lack of the intensity so this movie surprises with the intense and thrilling action scenes. Music wise is good, like the western music. One of the rare blockbuster movies this year to feature great music. Acting wise is good. CGI effects wise is good too, aliens are believable.

Overall: This is a rare blockbuster this year that is intense and filled with suspense. Superheroes flick like Thor, Green Lantern are filled with just special effects and nothing else. Transformers and Harry Potter are loud and filled with action without much suspense. So far, for the blockbuster period, X-Men and Cowboys and Aliens prove to have the thrills and supense; the feeling of 'you want to know what will happen next'. Cowboys and Aliens rounds up the great blockbuster period this year. Hope next year will be equally as good as this year or may be even better.

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