Outlander (2008)
Directed by Howard McCain
During the reign of the Vikings, a man from another world crash-lands on Earth, bringing with him an alien predator. The man must fuse his advanced technology with the weaponry of the vikings to fight the monster.
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So, when you tell someone you're going to see a movie about Vikings fighting an alien, everyone chuckles, but cowriter (with his "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans" partner Dirk Blackman)/director Howard McCain's film isn't half bad, like "Reign of Fire" crossed with "Beowulf" spiced with a dash of "Alien."
The bug resembles an AMC Pacer after being tricked out by "Alien" designer H.R. Giger.
The pace is fast, the action bloody, and the influence of the likes of Alien, Predator and The Thing can be felt throughout, with a healthy slice of Beowulf thrown in for good measure.
The Moorwen looks like a giant, speedy, armored hippo-beetle with a toothy front end designed in the same forges of hell that produced the alien in " Alien ."
Take James Cameron’s Aliens, drop it down in the middle of Lord of the Rings, then have it rewritten by Uwe Boll, and you’d have Outlander.
Handsome James Caviezel crash-lands from space to Vikings-era Norway in "Outlander" and proceeds to help a tribe of heavily bearded crypto-medievals rid their community of the "Aliens"-caliber creature the spaceman brought with him.
Jim Caviezel’s role should have been played by an Arnold Schwarzenegger type, in Predator-era form.
The pace is fast, the action bloody, and the influence of the likes of Alien, Predator and The Thing can be felt throughout, with a healthy slice of Beowulf thrown in for good measure.
In an opening sequence that sets the tone for much that follows – it borrows from Predator and Planet of the Apes – a spacecraft crash-lands in 8th-century Norway.
Outlander is what you'd get if you took Alien, The Host, Pitch Black, Pathfinder and maybe a little Planet of the Apes and Beowulf, and scrambled them all together - without figuring out which elements are actually good and which would actually work together.
In an opening sequence that sets the tone for much that follows – it borrows from Predator and Planet of the Apes – a spacecraft crash-lands in 8th-century Norway.
The pace is fast, the action bloody, and the influence of the likes of Alien, Predator and The Thing can be felt throughout, with a healthy slice of Beowulf thrown in for good measure.
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So, when you tell someone you're going to see a movie about Vikings fighting an alien, everyone chuckles, but cowriter (with his "Underworld: Rise of the Lycans" partner Dirk Blackman)/director Howard McCain's film isn't half bad, like "Reign of Fire" crossed with "Beowulf" spiced with a dash of "Alien."
Caviezel, mesmerising in The Passion Of The Christ and The Count Of Monte Cristo but uninspiring in pretty much everything else, plays the Messianic hero with blank-faced ambivalence.
When Kainan's (James Caviezel, "The Passion of the Christ") space ship crashes into a Norwegian lake in 709 A.D., King Rothgar's (John Hurt, "Hellboy II: The Golden Army") tribe believes he is the one responsible for torching neighboring Gunnar's (Ron Perlman, "Hellboy II: The Golden Army") whaling village.
The Passion of the Christ star is a stranger who's crash-landed his UFO in the realm of King Rothgar (John Hurt), having unwittingly taken a humongous, carnivorous predator - a Moorwen - along for the ride.
Coming down to Earth and saving mankind from a fate worse than death presents nothing new for Jim Caviezel – after all, he played Jesus in The Passion of the Christ.
He's played by Jim Caviezel, recently seen as Jesus in "The Passion of the Christ."
Norwegians in 709 A.D. are getting along just fine—aside from the constant, savage swordfights, of course—until a spaceship crashes and the lone survivor, Kainan (Jim Caviezel of "The Passion of the Christ"), explains that he's accidentally brought with him giant, killer alien creatures called Moorwen.