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Writer-director Howard McCain bids fair to dethrone Uwe Boll as the king of crap action flicks, and every second feels like time on the cross.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
50
Not helped by a wooden perf from Jim Caviezel as a humanoid alien who accidentally imports a real alien to eighth-century Earth.
50
Chicago Tribune by Michael Phillips
The nuttiest hunk of junk in many months.
70
The Hollywood Reporter by Ray Bennett
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.
25
Miami Herald by Rene Rodriguez
There isn't a single scene in this story about a traveler from another planet (Jim Caviezel) who crash-lands on Earth during the Iron Age that doesn't remind you of another, better movie.
50
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
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.
50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker
If only Outlander was as fun as the premise makes it sound on paper.
63
Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
An enjoyably goofy hybrid of extraterrestrial sci-fi and Iron Age action, Outlander boasts a super-serious Jim Caviezel in the title role
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The A.V. Club by Tasha Robinson
Surprise number one: It's smarter than it looks. Surprise number two: That doesn't entirely ruin it as an action film.
50
By taking nonsense seriously Outlander never achieves camp. It's a comic book that's mistaken itself for scripture.