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I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This film has EVERYTHING! It's genius and the writer is a genius for managing to take every good thing possible that makes a film interesting and then stitch all those elements together without making a mess of it.It's enthralling from the first scene to the last. It may have a few flaws that other reviewers have picked on, but I was too dazzled by what I was seeing to notice any holes. It really is a visual feast and the acting is terrific too, plus there are real relationships/bonds created between the characters, meaning that it's not just all superficial action without any substance or reason.Added to the solidity of the whole thing and its knock-out concept we're also treated to first class SFX and a fantastic creature! There's nothing more that anyone could want who loves watching this type of genre. I'd recommend it to anyone and I could watch it over and over!

Well, I don't know if it can be called a "sci-fi" movie. You have at most 5 minutes of science fiction in the almost two hours that I lost by watching this movie. Also, it is not that exact historic if I put it that way. I'm not sure if these filmmakers know how real vikings looked like ? To recap, real vikings lived in Scandinavia, in subarctic climate (where it's damn cold). This movie shows us vikings in an unrealistic environment with volcanoes and lava, in an almost Mediterranean environment. The vikings walk with short sleeves, look like Americans, behave like Americans and have almost nothing in common with vikings, except few viking shields and a viking village. Come on, the filmmakers could do better than that. At least some effort would make the movie much more realistic. And I haven't seen one viking that is naturally blond or at least to look like one. Most of them have brown or black hair with some hair parts that are colored to blond. I mean everybody knows that the Scandinavian people are blond with pale skin (due to low levels of Melanin because they are not exposed to sun). It's because they live in winter lands :) Except these simple geographic and scientific facts that have nothing to do with this (not science, but more of a fiction) movie, it also lack creativity. It's full of plot holes. The story is undeveloped, so at least to say, and it has no twist at all. Action scenes have not much creativity in it and the whole idea of the movie ends where it has started: at the beginning. I won't recommend it to anyone.

This is one of those secret gems. What I mean by that is that the movie was not a blockbuster and in many cases didn't even appear in the cinemas, but you may stumble across it at a video shop, a friend's house, or as in my case, as a part of a collection that somebody was getting rid of because he was going to Japan. Even then, you will look at the cover and think about whether you really want to watch it, but decide that you will do so, and as such, when you do, you suddenly discover that this is a really good movie.Outlander is about a spaceman (Kainan, play by James Caviezel, of the Passion fame) who crashes to earth during the age of the vikings. However on his ship is an alien monster that escapes and he has to then, with the help of the vikings, track it down and kill it. As such this movie is sort of a cross between an alien movie and a dragon movie as the alien creature, not only is it incredibly powerful, but has reminiscences of the alien (without the acid for blood, though one is expecting this to happen a number of times during the movie).There probably isn't much to write about, except that the vikings must swallow their pride and learn to trust a stranger, and Kainan must also overcome his guilt for being the member of a colonising race of aliens who will simply destroy a planet so that they may colonise the planet. In the end though, it is a modern swords and sandal fantasy film, though one does not necessarily call such films that anymore. In this age of computers we are able to make even the lowest budget film look top class. I have also noticed that the acting quality of a lot of films has also substantially increased. I remember hiring films from the video shop and grimacing because the acting was atrocious. That simply does not seem to be the case anymore, though one can easily get around that by having what I generally call a 'silent' film. That is, not a film that has no sound, but a film where the main characters simply do not say much.

Creative story line for a science fiction movie by combining the future and the past. There is a believable element in the opening scenes after the crash landing. The Outlander is obviously distressed and disoriented in a land that is far back in time. Loss of his weapon engages him at a physical level only with his captors, man to man. The Viking side of the story line has plenty of characters, fighting, and village details. But the village sets are only barely constructed. This is surprising given that most of the movie takes place with the Vikings. The flash backs to the future world have much more elaborate sets (well designed and complete). But overall this is an interesting and engaging movie. The characters are interesting, the story line progresses fairly quickly with quirks and turns, and the effects with the dragon are decent.