While surveying a telegraph line in 1861, Western Union engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger) is severely injured in an accident. He is discovered by Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), an outlaw on the run from a posse. Forced to travel on foot after his horse was hurt, Shaw at first considers stealing Creighton's horse, but changes his mind and takes the man with him, saving his life.
Sometime later, following his recovery, Creighton returns to Omaha, Nebraska and plans the construction of a telegraph line from Omaha to Salt Lake City, Utah. Facing considerable opposition to the line from Confederate soldiers, Indians, and outlaws, Creighton elicits the help of his sister Sue (Virginia Gilmore), foreman Pat Grogan (Minor Watson), and assistant Homer Kettle (Chill Wills).
Looking to put his outlaw past behind him, Shaw arrives at Creighton's Western Union office looking for honest work and is hired as a scout by Grogan who is unaware of his past. Creighton recognizes him among the men and allows him to stay despite his suspicions. Creighton also hires tenderfoot Richard Blake (Robert Young), a Harvard-educated engineer as a favor to Blake's father. Shaw and Blake are both attracted to Sue and vie for her attention, but their romantic rivalry is cut short when construction of the telegraph line starts on July 4, 1861.
After work commences on the line, one of the men is killed apparently by a mysterious band of cattle-rustling Indians. Unconvinced that Indians are to blame, Shaw rides out to investigate and follows the rustlers' trail to the camp of Jack Slade, a former friend and cohort, whose gang committed the killing disguised as Indians—the gang Shaw left following his last bank robbery. Slade reveals that they are working for the Confederacy to disrupt Western Union because they believe the telegraph service will help the Union. Shaw rides away and returns to the line. Not wanting to turn in his former friends, Shaw tells Creighton that a large band of Dakota Indians stole the cattle, and recommends that they simply replace the herd and not risk a fight with the Indians.
Sometime later, a confrontation takes place between men working on the forward line and a band of drunken Indians. When one of the Indians tries to steal some equipment, a nervous Blake shoots him, ignoring Shaw's order to remain calm. After word arrives that the main camp is under attack by other Indians, the Western Union men rush back to help with the defense. At the main camp, Slade's men, who are again disguised as Indians, steal the Western Union horses. The company discover the ruse when one of the wounded Indians turns out to be a white man. Forced to buy back their stolen horses from Slade, Creighton becomes suspicious of Shaw's involvement, especially when he admits to knowing the gang.
Soon the U.S. Army arrives and announces the Indians have now refused to allow the telegraph lines to go through their territory in response to Blake's shooting of the drunken Indian. Creighton, Shaw, and Blake ride out to convince Chief Spotted Horse to allow them to build the line through Indian territory, even though the man Blake wounded was Spotted Horse's son. Creighton is finally able to persuade the Indians to allow them passage, and work continues until the company approaches Salt Lake City.
Sometime later, Shaw receives word that Jack Slade wants to meet with him. On the way to see Slade, Shaw is captured and bound by Slade's men. Slade says his group is going to burn down the Western Union camp and they don't want Shaw to interfere. After Slade and his men ride off, Shaw escapes from his ropes but arrives back too late to prevent the fire. He helps rescue some of the Western Union men from the flames and burns his hands in the process.
After the fire, Creighton confronts Shaw for an explanation, but Shaw does not reveal what he knows and is fired by Creighton. As Shaw leaves the camp, he tells Blake that Slade is actually Shaw's brother and that he, Shaw, will find Slade's gang and stop them from interfering with the telegraph project. Shaw rides off and finds Slade and his men in a nearby town. At the barber shop, Shaw confronts his brother, whose gun is concealed under the barber's sheet. Slade shoots Shaw through the sheet. Shaw fights back in spite of his wound, killing some of the gang members, and then dies. Blake arrives and continues the fight with Slade who dies from his wounds. Soon after, the Western Union line is completed and the workers celebrate. When Sue laments the absence of Shaw, Creighton tells her that Shaw can hear them.
就，还行吧，前半部分不咋地，后半部分略好一些。整体上来说不至于是个让人太翻白眼的电影，确实能笑出来。可以排上麻花前三（但是麻花本身也就那样）。沈腾叔叔正经起来比喜剧式不着调要帅和讨喜。“你也知道，没别的办法了。”这句词之后转身前的那个眼神帅了我一下。行星爆炸的镜头做得还挺美。同意有个友邻的评价，作为科幻不合格，作为喜剧也不合格，但是把科幻和喜剧相结合还算成了一部成功的商业电影。Fly me to the moon，country road等用的插曲都很不错。
优点是非常认真地在服务老百姓做娱乐产品，有突破，腾哥真的牛，不愧齐齐哈尔三杰之首。视效出色，郝瀚老师的刚子演得真不错，狠狠代入了。有浪漫到，鼠拉雪橇致敬外星人帅的。内在短板是喜剧和科幻两个类型打架，一般来说融合需要以其中一个为主，这个片在拼命端水，俩都很使劲儿效果会抵消一部分，我觉得再减少一些无用笑点给独孤月一些安静下来的时间让我们真的体验到他的孤独，肯定会更好。但麻花基因也没办法，很多观众就是要看二人转看小品。塞得满，会导致故事容量太大，节奏太赶，一半叙事用华彩剪辑真的让人吃不消，也根本没工夫深入人物。不要自行车的话，总的来说是挺可看的。
就是一出科幻逻辑非常不严谨的闹剧，几乎是沈腾一个人的solo秀，剧情十分扁平，可预料的发展方向，可猜到的喜忧参半，华语喜剧电影太喜欢笑中带泪来烘焙，但文本一开始估计都是以悲剧构思下笔，喜剧桥段后续添砖加瓦，导致笑料扎堆但程式化明显，所以往往前后割裂感也严重，给人一种“又要煽情（升华）？”的白眼嫌弃，这样的剧本也只有自带幽默感的演员来诠释增加说服力，否则就是一盘烂泥散沙，月球生活与清障π+（新冠）以颓废摆烂和光芒万丈的差异性塑造，特效虚头巴脑但袋鼠令人眼前一亮，开心麻花这回算是下足功夫，背景冲出地球，但喜剧边界的拓展还在原地招手，一切都像在二手市场淘来的。★★☆
腾叔这个演技真的折服，就知道地球人没灭绝还在关注自己之后那个哭戏的情绪变化层次拿捏，决绝子！你可以永远相信腾叔的电影。respect
沈腾马丽＋开心麻花，这难道不是顶级阵容顶级号召力？看完了，真的很好看！！！！！笑点很足，配乐很棒
我真的以为是特笑大片（宣发方向），结果是特效大片，还要指望我认同你的工业水准吗？笑啦，纯纯的挂羊头卖狗肉的诈骗片，不要再欺骗自己了好吗。3/10。用本片演员李成儒老师的经典名言来总结:如坐针毡、如鲠在喉、如芒刺背。
说实话，比好莱坞的纯英雄主义套路更具亲和力。
别当喜剧片看，当喜剧片看没意思，不那么好笑，当科幻片的预期看，差不多七分水平吧。脑补 流浪地球 火星救援 楚门的世界 差不多这样吧。
抱着电影院那么艰难应该有啥看啥的心态去的，三十分钟后觉得电影院还是关门算了。
含腾量高也不过如此，而且，一直叫嚣含腾量，沈腾也拍过不少烂片呀😂
开心麻花版《火星救援》，非常治愈emo的科幻喜剧，看完神清气爽。开心麻花这次的笑点比较高级，和情节、人物、情境紧紧相扣，每一个包袱都很接地气，再是小品式的桥段。而且沈腾这次的演技很惊喜，真的演出了那种绝望与希望的层次变化。马丽在影片中颜值还上升了不少。全方位的惊喜，开心麻花很有诚意的一次作品。
可能是得益于原著漫画的加成，开心麻花的电影终于不再是段子的排列组合和小品汇报演出。甚至，在这部科幻喜剧里能够看出他们想要在类型上继续开拓的野心。更值得表扬的，影片的价值也落在了一个令人舒服的点上，为此麻花可能相当冒险地给出了一个不那么大团圆的结局。尽管电影与新冠无关，但我仍然把它视作一部后疫情电影：在极为相似的处境里，被遗弃、被封闭的个体所渴望的是人与人之间的连接。正是这样的一种表达，我被短暂地治愈了。在一个全面倒退回一战前夕的时代，我还是认为，悲观主义总是看似深刻，但人们需要乐观，愚蠢地乐观。
咱就是说 喜剧就喜剧 能不能不装什么科幻？科幻和你有啥关系？！全特么是好莱坞上世纪就玩儿剩的结构和设定加上一堆烂梗，强搔搔着笑，吹啥改革创新什么本土科幻之光啥的，我真是服了你们这帮老六
看完就把中国电影的股票清了.....剧情槽点太多
国产只能拍《独行月球》《外太空的莫扎特》这种低幼的喜剧科幻吗
不过好像亮点全在预告片里了。
《孤独月在月球的三年，治疗了地球人的精神内耗》
感觉一般，看得出来想讨好中国，出现的中国元素也比较正面，就是怎么让生肖做反派呢…
这么多年了，开心麻花还是在用小品的思路拍电影，尽管投资已经有了肉眼可见的飞速提升。刚开场就开始使劲闹腾，喧嚣吵闹还有沈腾油腻的样子都极大削减了科幻元素带来的新鲜感。还有一半时间的时候故事就讲不下去了，于是使劲煽情来凑够时长，时刻遵循小品的三板斧。但不管怎么样，比起开心麻花之前的几部电影最起码没有那么俗气，但电影思路仍然不足，导致其上升的水平及其有限，整体仍然只能算是闹腾的大投资小品。
没有希望人确实活不下去。
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