Outlander 2008

It destroyed his world. He won't let it destroy ours.

6.429 / 10   1198 vote(s)
R
Science Fiction Action

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.

Release Date 2008-04-24
Runtime 1h 55m
Directors Howard McCain, Pierre Gill, Dusan Strugar, David A. Armstrong
Producers Christopher Roberts, John Schimmel, Jim Livolsi, Neil Williamson, Mara Hamilton
Writers Howard McCain, Dirk Blackman

Outlandish!

During the reign of the Vikings, a man from another planet crash lands on Earth and unfortunately brings with him a giant alien beast known as the Moorwen. Not only that, but once assimilating himself with this particular Viking faction, he finds that he is now part of a war they are engaged in with another Viking race.

Yep, it's predator in the Viking age, berserker sci-fi played purely for entertainment and cheese sandwiches. Jesus Jimmy Caviezel brings the broody macho posturing, John Hurt the ham, while Ron Perlman picks up an easy pay check for growling a lot. It's still a lot of fun, though, the mixture of TV movie type production values mixing with a cheeky idea that sees the creation of a genuinely cool monster (effects not half bad at all). Good genre action for the undemanding genre faithful. 6/10

John Chard