Outlander Critic Reviews
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It's entertaining nonsense with major league special effects, larger-than-life characters and inventive monsters that draw on the "Aliens" and "Predator" models, being terrifying but also vaguely sympathetic.Read the full review
Surprise number one: It's smarter than it looks. Surprise number two: That doesn't entirely ruin it as an action film.Read the full review
Not helped by a wooden perf from Jim Caviezel as a humanoid alien who accidentally imports a real alien to eighth-century Earth.Read the full review
Outlander is interesting as a collision of genres: the monster movie meets the Viking saga. You have to give it credit for carrying that premise to its ultimate (if not logical) conclusion.Read the full review
By taking nonsense seriously Outlander never achieves camp. It's a comic book that's mistaken itself for scripture.Read the full review
In its second half, Outlander falls apart completely, becoming nothing but a violent, mindless monster movie along the lines of "Alien vs. Predator."Read the full review
