Review: "Cowboys and Aliens" discards its fun title in favor of an excruciating experience
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Film Rating: D+
There are multiple films warring for supremacy inside of Cowboys and Aliens, and while all of them have the potential to be satisfying interpretations of the wacky title on their own, together they make a film that is loud, soulless, and above all, stupid. Insultingly, incoherently stupid.
If one pays attention to the opening credits, it …
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