Its blend of crappy special effects, cheesy acting and straight-faced silliness is enough to provide viewers with a taste for camp trash with a couple of hours of cheerfully ridiculous mind-rot.
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01/22/09
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Outlander (2009)
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Reviews Counted:59
Fresh:23
Rotten:36
Average Rating:5.1/10
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
For a movie about aliens and Vikings, Outlander turns out to be awfully rough going.
01/22/09
... a skimpy script with unimaginative characters, mundane dialogue and routine plot twists.
01/22/09
awash in inexplicable incompleteness... uninvolving and inert
01/22/09
There isn't a single scene in this story about a traveler from another planet who crash-lands on Earth during the Iron Age that doesn't remind you of another, better movie.
01/22/09
By taking nonsense seriously Outlander never achieves camp. It's a comic book that's mistaken itself for scripture.
01/22/09
Top CriticYou can think about Outlander 16 different ways, and still arrive at the same conclusion: It just doesn't work.
01/22/09
...like "Reign of Fire" crossed with "Beowulf" spiced with a dash of "Alien."...destined for a cult audience.
01/22/09
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
An odd mishmash of genres with too much message and musing to be propulsive, and too much cornball monster movie to take seriously. But while the blend may not satisfy fans of pure action or pure drama, at least it gives them both a new flavor to try.
01/22/09
A harmlessly entertaining, old-fashioned epic that fuses a SciFi Channel–esque space-colonization parable with an Iron-Age period actioner.
01/22/09
Kudos are in order for the entire cast, which recites the corny dialogue, and never once turns a glowing red.
01/22/09
An enjoyably goofy hybrid of extraterrestrial sci-fi and Iron Age action.
01/22/09
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
I am tempted to describe the plot of Outlander as preposterous, but a movie about an alien spaceship crashing into a Viking fjord during the Iron Age is likely to be preposterous.
01/22/09
Top CriticOutlander is a fluid genre exercise that satisfies cravings for action and Norse mythology in one fell swoop. It's a full-bodied adventure movie that's responsive and reverential to the needs of sci-fi escapism.
01/21/09
One of the more outlandish B-pictures to come out of the Great Movie Mash-up Machine known as The Weinstein Co.
01/21/09
For those eagerly awaiting a consummation of the long-simmering tensions between aliens and Vikings, 'Outlander' is certainly the only game in town. Those whose obsessions lead elsewhere would be wise to look for alternatives.
01/21/09
Surely they mean Outlandish...ready-made for a late-night slot on the Sci-Fi channel.
01/21/09
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