With its depressing lack of humour failing to compensate for its budget-deficient action sequences, it almost makes the films of Uwe Boll look competent.
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04/24/09
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Outlander (2009)
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Reviews Counted:58
Fresh:22
Rotten:36
Average Rating:5/10
Consensus: Schizophrenic in subject and lackluster in execution, Outlander might have trouble finding the cult audience for which it was built.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Theatrical Release:Jan 23, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $59,581
Synopsis: During the reign of the Vikings, a being from another galaxy (Urban) crash-lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator.
Starring: James Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, Ron Perlman
Director: Howard McCain
Reviews for Outlander
There is a nice attention to authentic detail that is to be admired more for its verisimilitude than for anything compelling it brings to the action
01/22/09
As clunky and ineffective as an iron-age weapon on an alien predator's hide, this retro-SF rationalisation of Beowulf could have done with less sword and more pen.
04/25/09
As with Cloverfield, I started rooting for the monster to eat the people at a faster rate.
01/27/09
awash in inexplicable incompleteness... uninvolving and inert
01/22/09
Combine this with a humourless screenplay and unimaginative direction, and Outlander is heavy going.
04/24/09
Cribbing desperately from The Lord Of The Rings, Reign Of Fire, and especially Beowulf, it's a snorgasbord of awfulness.
04/24/09
Sadly, the kooky premise of Outlander solidifies quickly into formula: monster is fought, fair maiden won, kingship gained and past errors redeemed with no real surprises along the way.
04/24/09
As the ginger offspring of a Ridley Scott/Peter Jackson gangbang, Outlander is a wannabe B movie classic that’s so shit, it’s just… shit!
04/24/09
Most of the time, though, Howard McCain’s movie is plain dull.
04/28/09
For a movie about aliens and Vikings, Outlander turns out to be awfully rough going.
01/22/09
Surely they mean Outlandish...ready-made for a late-night slot on the Sci-Fi channel.
01/21/09
Kudos are in order for the entire cast, which recites the corny dialogue, and never once turns a glowing red.
01/22/09
I wish they could have just called this what it really is: The Alien and the Vikings Versus the Giant, Nearly-Invisible Monster. But in choosing a boring title like Outlander, they have showed their hand: this movie is no fun at all.
01/23/09
A potentially fun idea that's held back by sub-par writing and a slow as molasses beginning.
01/26/09
This should have been a cracking genre piece – Vikings? Monsters? What’s not to like? – even if Beowulf hadn’t got there first. But despite the cool concept, it commits the cardinal sin of being a little too much on the dull side.
04/24/09
You'll care less about who gets slashed and/or chewed to pieces than about several of the Vikings' stylish beard pigtails.
01/22/09
Becomes dismayingly conventional.
02/06/09
In Outlander, the nuttiest hunk of junk in many months, Viking warriors and a stoic intergalactic traveler join forces to combat an enormous beetle with whiplash stingers.
01/23/09
Top CriticIn its second half, Outlander falls apart completely, becoming nothing but a violent, mindless monster movie along the lines of Alien vs. Predator.
01/23/09
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January 16, 2009:
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June 04, 2008:
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