OUTLANDER Film Review - 17/5/09

From the poster you can tell if you like your men big & butch as this film is where you'll find them! All posing and dirty, holding big weapons just waiting to get it on. This type of poster always makes me laugh as you can tell from it exactly what your getting. Strangely enough though silly advertising aside this clever clash of sci-fi come viking monster movie has a decent line in myth and mythology. Taking elements from 'Beowulf & Grendel' even the Arthurian Lady In The Lake and some biblical context, we have alien James Caviezel crash-landing on earth in Norway around the year 709. Unfortunately the creature he is transporting escapes and the local vikings headed by John Hurt and his daughter Sophia Myles don't take too kindly to having their villages razed and their people eaten. Over in the next valley an unrecognisable Ron Perlman the leader of another group has also been attacked. Banding together the disparate groups try to find a way to stop the creature for good!