Clint has done it again. Just when you thought there couldn't possibly be anything left for him to surprise us with, he comes along along with this wonderfully relaxed space disaster comedy, the film the dreadful "Armageddon" had tried to be but never ever came close to being. In fact, "Space Cowboys" plays somewhat like a sequel to Philip Kaufman's glorious space opera "The Right Stuff", which so far had been the only great space western. With the laid back, relaxing "Space Cowboys", Eastwood has started the new millennium just like he ended the last one: with a great piece of work. Considering the fact that he was the man of the 60's (with the spaghetti westerns), the man of the 70's (with films like "Dirty Harry", "The Beguiled", "Play Misty for Me" and the fabulous, hugely underrated "Gauntlet") AND the man of the 90's (with masterpieces like "Unforgiven", "A Perfect World", "The Bridges of Madison County", as well as the undeservedly neglected "Rookie", "True Crime" and "Absolute Power"), Clint seems to be destined to become the man of the 2000's, as well.
Review of Space Cowboys
