“ Cowboys & Aliens” begins like a 19th-century Bourne movie, with Daniel Craig playing a stone-cold killer who wakes up in the middle of the New Mexico desert, his memory a blank. (Besides, what was “ Raiders of the Lost Ark,” if not a prototype for such a B-movie mash-up?) Abrams and Michael Bay), Favreau has emerged the most immediate heir to the master’s heartfelt showmanship. Still, of all the directors to work in exec producer Steven Spielberg’s shadow (including J.J. A quick tour through Favreau’s credits reveals a helmer who has managed to spin hearty entertainment from ever more anemic sources - first a bedtime story (“Zathura”), then a comicbook series (“Iron Man”), and now a mere illustration, intended to be the cover of a then-unpublished graphic novel.
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