Space Cowboys: Critic Reviews

Space Cowboys is poorly engineered: lurchingly paced, the dramatic conflicts duct taped together.

Without succumbing to bitterness or nostalgia or overstating the case for one generation's virtues, [Eastwood] and his cohorts mount a vigorous and funny defense of maturity.

Some of the bits are funny ... but after a while it gets kind of old.

Eastwood highlights the personal relationships in a way that is gentle, funny and authentic.

One of those over-the-hill-gang buddyfests that pretend to be about teamwork and valor but are really about movie-star cronyism.

Space Cowboys is a satisfying science-fiction yarn.

Its heroes may be old, but the film feels delightfully fresh.

A nifty bit of digital wizardry.

Space Cowboys plays more like a mixture of Eastwood's leaden Cold War thriller Firefox and the aimless goofballing of Bronco Billy or Honkytonk Man than like his better films.

It's a rare pleasure to watch four terrific actors having the time of their lives.

Even star power can get lost in space.

Weak and saggy script meets predictable plot.

Problems are evident, and eminent, from a black-and-white flashback prologue in which four young men speak with old actors' voices. Yes, a man purportedly in peak physical condition sounds like a 70-year-old who's eaten bags of gravel daily for 30 years.

Grumpy Old Astronauts--or, rather, Grumpy Old Air Force Officers Who Get Sent into Space to Fix a Damaged Satellite.

...an equivocal movie that can't seem to decide whether to play its ridiculous premise straight.

It's tempting to pin a derisive label like Geezers in Space on this comedy-drama, but its veteran stars...make Space Cowboys hard to dislike.

Charm and personality are able to overwhelm the inherent silliness of the situation and the characters.

Despite the poignancy of old age, the mood of the film is cheerful, sustained by the high spirits of the four veterans.

I hope a few more scripts for these old geezers are in the offing. Like the Lemmon-Matthau films, this one is just plain fun.

Like its stars, the movie may be a little creaky sometimes, but it suffers from no lack of attitude.

one of the summer's most pleasant surprises, a solid "buddy picture" with a startlingly suspenseful last half-hour.

One advantage "Space Cowboys" has over "Armageddon" is that Eastwood is a more laconic director than Michael Bay. Then again, who isn't?

Em alguns momentos, acaba lembrando excessivamente o competente Apollo 13, mas isso e mais uma virtude do que um defeito.

Where Armageddon merely strutted, Cowboys swaggers. What's the difference? Style.

Space Cowboys doesn't so much embrace high concept as get dragged behind it kicking and screaming.