It wasn’t as if Cowboys & Aliens was the worst movie ever made or anything.
However, when you compare the numbers and the acclaim for Cowboys & Aliens to the other films Jon Favreau has directed, including The Jungle Book, Chef, Iron Man 2 and others, it sticks out like a sore thumb.
The movie is also running at 43% on Rotten Tomatoes–again not great, but not dismal either.
Still, if you are going to have one notable flop, you really could do worse than Cowboys & Aliens, even if it was a rather expensive movie to have not do so hot.