Review - Bobby Belt for The Mungles on Movies
Outlander follows Kainan (Jim Caviezel) a man from space (what?) who crash lands on earth. He's captured by Vikings and it's discovered that while attempting to kill it, he accidentally brought the monster from Cloverfield with him and it starts going on a murderous rampage, killing anything and everyone. I'm not kidding. You can look at the plot outline on IMDb if you don't believe that someone thought this was good enough to make into a movie.
Howard McCain, a little known director, calls the shots on this one. A film that focuses on the most clichÈ moments of the "outsider enters a primitive group's compound". Man is captured. Some like him. Traditionalist members of the village doubt him. Then they don't. Then they kind of do again. And he inevitably falls in love with the beautiful daughter of the tribe's leader, who somehow, after all these years of being beautiful and important, just hasn't been able to find someone. Until;
And I'm sure you know the rest. Except, this time, the movie has an alien in it. An alien that graphically murders people throughout. This felt like it was fused together in a lab from lesser parts of other similar bad movies.
And it's really sad for me. I like Caviezel a ton. I like John Hurt and Ron Perlman as well. I think Caviezel specifically is a very talented actor. This is not something that suits him and I would have figured he could have discerned this film's quality. And he's disappointing in his performance. Everyone is disappointing here and it felt like the filmmakers quickly realized they had nothing here, so in an attempt to try and distract people from their lack of a good story, they decided to drown the audience in red corn syrup. It's rated R and for a very good reason. It's consistently bloody and graphic.
I hope Caviezel chooses better projects in the future. This was not good. Avoid at all cost.
As I said, Outlander is rated R for Braveheart like violence and brief graphic language. The kiddies should probably skip this one. Each death just becomes more over the top than the first.
Overall, I'd give this 1 out of 5 games of shields. |
