Bloody aliens. Coming to our world, taking all our jobs and our women. And our lovely shiny gold. Did you know that the strained relations between Native Americans, white men and Mexicans were eventually calmed by the three parties reuniting against an alien invasion? I didn't either, until I watched this documentary.
Jake - who looks like Daniel Craig - wakes up in the wild west with a stomach wound, no memory and a fancy handcuff bracelet. We only know his name because his face is all over Wanted posters in Absolution (one of those dramatically named USA desert towns). A sexy mysterious lady Ella (Olivia Wilde) is desperate to jog his memory, but before she can, there's a big kefuffle with the Sherriff, tough nut Colonel Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford), his moronic drunk son and a load of scary shiny flying "demons" who lasso and kidnap half the townsfolk. Alpha male Dolarhyde and the other Alpha male Jake and then the Alpha male Native American tribe leader have a bit of a power struggle but ultimately must combine their skills and weapons to beat the (pretty bloody scary) aliens and save the abducted humans.
There isn't really too much character development. There's some father-son stuff with Harrison Ford, some kinda giving up crime for love shizzle with Jake and "don't underestimate the woman" girl power with Ella. And there's a couple of plot holes (kids dad has been missing for a year but he's not on the spacecraft, there's a boat abandoned in the middle of the desert ... hmmm okay). Doesn't really matter though, because there's some enjoyable cowboy movie moments mixed in with great alien scraps. A lot of silly fun.
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