Cowboys & Aliens vs Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek: First Contact has the higher audience score (7.3/10 against 5.6/10 for Cowboys & Aliens). Star Trek: First Contact is the shorter watch at 1h 51m compared with 1h 59m. Star Trek: First Contact is the older of the two (1996 against 2011). Both are action, science fiction, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Cowboys & Aliens posterCowboys & Aliens2011 VS Star Trek: First Contact posterStar Trek: First Contact1996
Cowboys & AliensStar Trek: First Contact
Audience score★ 5.6/10★ 7.3/10
Year20111996
Length1h 59m1h 51m
GenresAction, Science Fiction, Thriller, WesternAction, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller
Country–United States of America
DirectorJon FavreauJonathan Frakes
Main castWalton Goggins, Ana de la Reguera, Clancy Brown, Paul Dano, Harrison FordPatrick Stewart, Alfre Woodard, Neal McDonough, Adam Scott, James Cromwell

Synopsis

Cowboys & Aliens

A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.

Star Trek: First Contact

The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from changing Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.

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