Space Cowboys

Space Cowboys is at least three different movies--high-tech thriller, low-key comedy, rumination on aging--jammed together into an implausible but very likable entertainment.

Weak and saggy script meets predictable plot.

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

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

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

There's plenty to enjoy, particularly the performances, which feature enviable natural chemistry between the leads and a movie-stealing turn by Sutherland as the libidinous O'Neill.

I’m not sure that a relaxed treatment of tense outer-space moments is the way to go. The last half hour — the climax we’re supposedly here for — is flat-out dull.

Takes a ludicrous premise simultaneously at face value and also not very seriously.

Space Cowboys features a masterclass performance in acting from four of the hardest working actors of their generation.

A cheerful, thoroughly unambitious yarn.