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.

| Original Score: C | Sep 2, 2022

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

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 27, 2022

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 13, 2022

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.

| Mar 7, 2018

A cheerful, thoroughly unambitious yarn.

| Jul 13, 2015

Weak and saggy script meets predictable plot.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2010

Problems are evident, and eminent, from a black-and-white flashback prologue in which four young men speak with old actors' voices. Yes, a man purportedly in peak physical condition sounds like a 70-year-old who's eaten bags of gravel daily for 30 years.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Nov 4, 2010

Grumpy Old Astronauts--or, rather, Grumpy Old Air Force Officers Who Get Sent into Space to Fix a Damaged Satellite.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 8, 2010

A terrible effort with a bland script, boring plot, and uninspired story...

| Apr 29, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 14, 2007

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 30, 2005

...an equivocal movie that can't seem to decide whether to play its ridiculous premise straight.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jan 29, 2005

It's tempting to pin a derisive label like Geezers in Space on this comedy-drama, but its veteran stars...make Space Cowboys hard to dislike.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 1, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 14, 2003

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

Charm and personality are able to overwhelm the inherent silliness of the situation and the characters.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

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

| Dec 2, 2002

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 30, 2002