Armed with this knowledge, the group, now led by Dolarhyde, prepares to attack the aliens' grounded mother ship. Jake returns to his old gang and persuades them to join the fight. In a sneak attack, the humans breach the defenses of the spaceship by destroying the shuttle bay, forcing the aliens into a ground battle. Jake and Ella board the ship and free the captives, but Jake is captured. Dolarhyde rescues him and both men escape the ship after killing the alien responsible for Alice's death.
As the remaining aliens are taking off in their damaged craft, Ella sacrifices herself, destroying the ship using Jake's gauntlet. Jake's memory partially returns, and some abducted townsfolk begin to remember their past. Still a wanted man, Jake decides to leave; the sheriff and Dolarhyde say they will claim that he was killed in the invasion. The citizens intend to rebuild the town with the expectation that the newly discovered gold mine will soon bring many new settlers.
Jake kindly rejects Dolarhyde's offer to help rebuild the town, and rides away. Moviepedia Explore. Help Out. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? History Talk 0. Do you like this video? Play Sound. Directed By. After delivering a stern lesson in the virtues of Samaritanism, Jake makes his way to the nearby town of Absolution.
There he meets, in short order, a kindly priest Clancy Brown , an ineffectual saloon-keep Sam Rockwell , a taciturn sheriff Keith Carradine , his timid grandson Noah Ringer , a domineering cattleman named Colonel Dolarhyde Harrison Ford , his violent, entitled son Paul Dano , and various other stock characters from the Western canon.
There is also a beautiful woman Olivia Wilde , whose intended mysteriousness is easily mistaken for bland opacity.
Then the aliens show up, and all token stabs at background and motivation are quickly abandoned. When first spotted, the small extraterrestrial ships look like a fire on the horizon. But they quickly whiz into town, snatching up a number of residents like calves at a rodeo and spiriting them away. During the otherwise one-sided encounter, Jake discovers that his bracelet is in fact a space-age blaster, and he shoots one of the alien fighters from the sky.
No one exhibits much interest in examining the downed pod, however, least of all the resolutely incurious script. On their journey, they will be assaulted by aliens, by highwaymen, by Indians, and by draining bouts of narrative inertia.
There are a handful of things to like along the way, beginning, perhaps unsurprisingly, with Craig. Though his voice never quite achieves the right timbre—he appears to swallowing a little hard on his accent—his creased visage and lean physique which, yes, we are given the chance to inspect closely neatly summon the mythic Western ethos. If Sergio Leone were still with us, the things he could have done with that face!
There are other hints of promise in the early, pre-alien going, as the movie unrolls the familiar tropes of the genre: the mysterious loner; the gun-happy loudmouth; the unhurried lawman; the confrontations on dusty streets and in darkened bars. Search for: Search. Blog Post. Copyright Universal Pictures My most recent trip to the box office promised action, aliens, and Harrison Ford. So how do we circle the wagons? To aliens and Goldcorp: Life is worth more than gold!
Originally posted on September 16,
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