Jake and Ella board the ship and free the captives, but Jake is captured. In a sneak attack, the humans breach the spaceship, forcing the aliens into a ground battle. Jake returns to his old gang and persuades them to join the fight. He can also remember the aliens' hidden location.Īrmed with this knowledge, the group, now led by Colonel Dolarhyde, prepares to attack the aliens' grounded mothership. After taking Mescaline offered by the Indians, Jake recalls that Alice died in an alien experiment, but he escaped, inadvertently stealing the alien weapon. Ella claims Jake holds the secret to the aliens' whereabouts and says they must stop them before they exterminate all life on the planet. They are not invulnerable, however: Jake's gauntlet weapon can kill them, as well as stabbing and shooting, though the creatures are far stronger and more durable than humans and have superior weapons. The aliens, who have been abducting humans to perform experiments on, are also mining gold to power their machines. Ella is actually an alien who traveled to Earth to help humans resist the invaders after they destroyed her homeworld. As Ella's body is dumped on a fire, she is fully resurrected. Jake jumps aboard the ship and attacks the alien pilot, causing the ship to crash, but Ella is mortally wounded.Ĭhiricahua Apaches capture the posse, blaming them for the alien attacks. As he and the others flee, the aliens begin attacking again and Ella is seized. Jake, who stole the gang's loot after their last heist, attempts to retake control, but fails. During the night, the alien they were tracking appears and kills Meacham, who sacrifices himself to save Emmett, Taggart's grandson.īy the next morning, most of the posse has deserted, and the others are attacked by Jake's former gang. Jake, meanwhile, travels to an abandoned cabin, and in a flashback, recalls returning there with the gold just before he and a woman, Alice, were abducted by the aliens. Jake shoots down one ship with a device concealed in his wrist band, ending the attack.ĭolarhyde, Ella, and some townsfolk form a posse to track an alien that may have ejected from the downed ship. During the standoff, alien spaceships begin attacking the town, and Percy, the sheriff, and many townsfolk are abducted. He also wants Jake, who stole Dolarhyde's gold. Percy's father, Colonel Woodrow Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford), a rich and influential cattleman, arrives with his men and demands that Percy be released to him. Jake nearly escapes, but a mysterious woman named Ella Swenson (Olivia Wilde) knocks him out. After the stranger subdues Percy Dolarhyde (Paul Dano), who has been terrorizing the populace, Sheriff Taggart (Keith Carradine) recognizes him as Jake Lonergan, a wanted outlaw, and tries to arrest him. He wanders into the small town of Absolution, where the local preacher, Meacham (Clancy Brown), treats his wound. In 1873, Arizona Territory, an unnamed loner (Daniel Craig) awakens in the desert injured, with no memory, and a strange metal band shackled to his wrist. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella (Olivia Wilde), he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents-townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors-all in danger of annihilation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he's been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known. But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don't welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Ford). The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror from beyond our world.