Most of the reviews I read about this film were spot on, namely that the movie lacked the glib humour people expect from a premise involving cowboys and aliens. I'd agree with this assessment - particularly with Harrison Ford and Daniel Craig, who both can deliver a snappy one-liner. All through the movie I kept expecting them to hit the punchline, and each time they just walked away from it.
There's nothing particularly wrong with the film, just that there's nothing particularly right with it either. I'd describe as less than the sum of its parts. It takes standard existing ideas (loner cowboy, town under threat, alien invasion) but rather than creating something new, it just smashes them together, a bit like a neanderthal experimenting with rocks. And I somehow couldn't get Han Solo/Indiana Jones out of my head when watching Harrison Ford. At the risk of giving a spoiler (look away now), there's a scene near the end between Ford and Daniel Craig, where I half-expected Ford to turn to Craig and say "I'm sure Luke wasn't on that thing when it blew." And my wife had a similar experience, when a young boy kills an alien - she expected Ford to shout "Great, kid, don't get cocky!" Funny, I've never got that with any of Harrison Ford's other movies...
It's an okay film, but nothing to really draw you back in for a second visit.
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