In this sci-fi remake of the classic western High Noon, Sean Connery plays a Federal Marshall on a mining colony on one of Jupiter's moons. He investigates a series of violent attacks and deaths that are caused by a dangerous drug used by the miners, and tracks the sale of the illegal drug all the way to the mining operations chief, played by Peter Boyle. It may be set in outer space, but it has a very realistic feel in the way the mining colony is presented. Director Peter Hyams takes the same visual approach he would later use on 2010: The Year We Make Contact. Everything is very gritty and used looking, right down to the people. Connery is in excellent tough guy form as the marshall who finds himself all alone when his investigation turns up things that no one wants brought to light. Even his own men turn their backs on him when Boyle recruits assassins from Earth to come and murder him. It's a very clautrophobic movie filled with amazing visuals, plenty of action, and even some major gore when some people are exposed to zero atmosphere. It also has a tightly written story filled with suspense, mystery, humor, and plenty of tough guy mano-a-mano.
I recently got this on netflix, it was reccomended to me by a friend. I thought for what it was trying to do it did great. Its a fun adventure, with a little humor thrown in. If you like Sci-Fi you'll love it.
i had pretty low expectations for this going in and was pleasantly surprised. this has been touted as 'High Noon in space'- and the comparison holds water. the set-up is longer and more involved, and the waiting game/no one else really being willing to help is relegated to about 5 minutes of screen time. an enjoyable man-against-the-odds action flick.
Not bad, not bad. Apparently this a huge ripoff of High Noon but I don't really give a shit. It's a nice, junky science fiction movie, full of exploding heads and Sean Connery shooting things with like five hundred different shotguns. (I typed "shotfuns" on accident and considered just leaving it.) The ending seems to have nothing to do with the beginning, since it starts as a mystery and ends as a violent space station chase scene, but I guess as a change in gears it's fine.
Fluffy, non-committal entertainment in every sense of the phrase.
Don't know why... I dig it. It's predicable, dated and has corny dialogue... but, but, but, it's got Sean Connery in space. Meh, I guess it's like comfort food - something I remember from my childhood.
Sci-fi and western, and Sean Connery. How could it go wrong. The premise was good and the acting was fine, it wwas just the storyline was a bit slow and laborious. I enjoyed it to a large degree but could have done with a little more thrills and spills.
Badass. Sean Connery, space prostitutes, explosive decompression and shotguns. What more could one possibly want from a movie? I wish they'd release a decent DVD version.
Outland is definately a science fiction western. O'Neil, the newly appointed marshal for a settlement on Jupiter's moon is investigating a murder. Mine boss Shepard is doping his workers on anamphetamine enhancing drug that keep them productive for months, until they go nutz and start killing people. When Shepard sends his henchmen to kill Marshal O'Neil, Marshall himself is unsucessful at getting even the miners to back him and must stand alone. Outland displays futuristic suspense in an outerspace atmosphere. Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James B. Sikking and John Ratzenberger give one helluva fighting performance in this space western odyssey.
Efficient sci fi thriller that's basically High Noon made in the style of Alien. The family based scenes are a little embarrassing, but they are mercifully brief and infrequent.
Sean Connery gives a great performance as a marshall on a distant moon mining colony, where a series of sinister deaths keep occuring... a good galactic detective story.
I liked the seedy atmosphere of this film, as well as the characters and motivations, not to mention the storyline. If it had today's special effects available, it would have been a 5 star film -- and Sean Connery's bearded -- WOOF!
I never get tired of watching this movie. A great sci-fi action movie based on another great western; High Noon. The town is replaced with a space mining facility and the train bringing the assassins is replaced with a spaceship. Might sound bad at first but definitely a very entertaining movie.
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