Cowboys & Aliens - Science Fiction or real story

Cowboys & Aliens - Science Fiction or real story

Cowboys & Aliens  is an American science fiction film with Western-bonds (so-called Weird West) by director Jon Favreau in the year 2011. It is based on the comic Cowboys & Aliens by Scott Mitchell Rosenberg. He arrived on 29 July 2011 in the American cinema, was presented at the Locarno Film Festival and launched in Germany on 25 August 2011.

In the remote town of absolution in Arizona appears a mysterious stranger with no name and no memory of who bears an unusual metal cuff on the forearm. He has an abdominal injury, which is handled by the Father Meacham. After a brief confrontation with Percy Dolarhyde, the trigger-happy son of the local cattle baron, the sheriff is shot, what Percy was arrested by Sheriff John Taggart. This is based on a wanted poster out that the stranger is the wanted criminals Jake Lonergan, and then arrested him as well.

Meanwhile, one of the herds of cattle baron and Civil War Veterans Woodrow Dolarhyde, who is secretly "Colonel," called out of nowhere destroyed by an explosion, are of the accompanying three cowboys gone two, the third pushes Dolarhyde the blame for the incident in the shoes . As Percy Dolarhyde to dive companion Percies and report of the arrest, after which the cattle baron rides with some men in the city to "get the sheriff to reason".

The sheriff has been shipped, the two prisoners in a carriage, in order to the judge in Santa Fe to make. At that moment, Woodrow Dolarhyde and his men reached the city. It asks the sheriff to give him and his son Jake Lonergan, who had robbed one of his stagecoaches. Just before it comes into conflict emerge, strange lights on the horizon, approaching fast.

They turn out to be flying objects, which immediately opened fire. In the wild confusion, some people like a pack of Angel, pulled into the air and carried off by the flying objects, including Sheriff Taggert and Percy Dolarhyde. Lonergan's arm cuff is suddenly active, and it lights reveals a kind of display. Lonergan can free himself from the coach, and manages, with the cuff and so shoot down an aircraft to stop the attack. The pilot of the wreck is initially undetectable, is then seen as a non-human silhouette in a building and can finally escape.

The next morning, the trace of the pilots will be prosecuted. After initial hesitation, also rides with Lonergan after he has become clear that the demons, as the attackers are known, also for the disappearance of his love Alice are responsible. After a long ride, they lose the trail in heavy rain. The group finds a Mississippi steamer lying upside down (500 miles away by a river, as it observes the Colonel) and seeks to Unterschupf for the night. Here there are a few encounters between the men. The colonel gives the small knife and Emmett Doc Meacham tries to teach the shooting.

Meanwhile, Jake Swenson Ella asks for help again, just as it has already done in the city. Jake does not understand why he could only help. The sudden flash of Jake's arm cuff and both recognize that the pilot probably needs to be in the vicinity. Meacham and kills the pilot before he can attack can be averted by Jake Emmett. After the group has now but for the first time the attacker actually seen some of the fleeing men. The next morning, only Jake, the Colonel, Nat, Emmett, Doc and Ella are left on the ride and follow the trail.

The group meets in a canyon a few bandits, who turns out to be Jake's former band. In the camp of the bandits then there is a duel between Jake and the new leader of the gang, in which it is killed by Jake's arm cuff. The small group is now trying to escape, but is followed by the remaining bandits. Suddenly and unexpectedly, all shot from a few aircraft and there are also people kidnapped again. This time Ella is. Jake manages to shoot the aircraft and even to jump on that, just as it flies through a small canyon. Over a lake, he now shoots from the aircraft and can finally rid Ella. Reach the shore but not only the two, but the pilot and these attacks immediately Ella. Jake can kill him quickly, but Ella is seriously injured. Jake wears Ella back to the other, Ella arrived but died.

The group will then suddenly surrounded by Indians and taken prisoner. In the camp of the Indians burned the body of Ella and one is just to kill before the others, since they are for the emergence of the "demons" blames. Suddenly, the fire burns bright and large on him, and emerges from the "born again" Ella.

Now it is clear that Ella is also an alien, what on earth is to avoid that happens to the people the same with their people. She says that the "demons" are aliens who are looking for gold and they are only a small Kundschaftergruppe. They must be stopped before they can call in reinforcements and the earth so the fall would be doomed. Jake by a shaman can close his memory lapses and now know where the aliens are found. He knows now that his girlfriend, Alice of them was killed and how he came to the arm cuff.

After Jake has convinced his bandit friends fight so they attack together with the Indians to the mother ship of the aliens. They succeed in blowing up the shuttle bay, so that the aliens they can not attack from the air. Then some aliens now leave the mother ship and engage the people directly. Here are a few people killed, including Nat, who dies in the arms of the Colonel when he tells him that he is the son he never had. Emmett is pursued by an alien and almost taken, though it can defend himself with his knife and kills the alien.

Jake and Ella enter Meanwhile, the mothership of aliens through a small cave, which took advantage of Jake as he escaped the aliens at the beginning. You can find the kidnapped people who look as if hypnotized into a light. After the light is destroyed, the people slowly come to, but can remember nothing.

Ella wants now that the abducted persons are rescued, stop the aliens. They demanded for the cuff of Jake, but these do not how to store them. Ella tells him to think about anything, but this works only after Ella kisses Jake. Then falls off the cuff of Jake's arm. Ella goes off into the center of the spaceship and says goodbye to Jake, because she wants to sacrifice for the people. Jake, now without the alien weapon is overwhelmed by an alien on an examination bed and stretched, which he already knows of his abduction. The alien is the one that overwhelmed Jake during his escape, he could poke an eye out and by whom he had his arm cuff. This Alien wants to outdo Jake now turn a blind eye in revenge, but at the last moment prevented from Colonel Woodrow Dolarhyde shoots at him. Together, they both kill the alien and leave the cave.

Outside, in the meantime, people have gained the upper hand and now the aliens are trying to escape. They start with their mother ship and gain altitude quickly. Ella has now reached it in the center of the ship to a source of energy and triggers an explosion of use of the arm cuff, which destroyed the whole ship.

Emmett has his grandfather Sheriff Taggert again, the Colonel's son, Percy and his wife Maria Doc. Later on in the city is trying to convince Woodrow Dolarhyde Jake to stay with him because he can always use a good man. Jake refuses, however, because he is indeed still looking. The sheriff and the Colonel swore, however, that Jake Lonergan had died in the explosion in the mountains. Jake pulls it off before but to ride and ride into the sunset.