Outlander: Critic Reviews

We are now deep, deep, deep into nerd territory, so deep you will get a nosebleed in your diving suit.

By taking nonsense seriously Outlander never achieves camp. It's a comic book that's mistaken itself for scripture.

An unexpectedly enjoyable science-fiction adventure that should be generating louder fanboy buzz than it has so far.

I am tempted to describe the plot of Outlander as preposterous, but a movie about an alien spaceship crashing into a Viking fjord during the Iron Age is likely to be preposterous.

In Outlander, the nuttiest hunk of junk in many months, Viking warriors and a stoic intergalactic traveler join forces to combat an enormous beetle with whiplash stingers.

An enjoyably goofy hybrid of extraterrestrial sci-fi and Iron Age action.

Outlander is a cheesy, low-budget, space alien Viking monster movie. And seemingly proud of it.

One of the more outlandish B-pictures to come out of the Great Movie Mash-up Machine known as The Weinstein Co.

Beowulf with aliens and lots of gore, violence.

Outlander is a fluid genre exercise that satisfies cravings for action and Norse mythology in one fell swoop. It's a full-bodied adventure movie that's responsive and reverential to the needs of sci-fi escapism.

Vikings vs. aliens -- Outlander is probably the best possible version of whatever movie you've already made in your head from reading those first three words.

A mead hall party feels like a Iron Age version of "Cheers," right down to the "Norm!" greeting for one character. It's one of many leaden diversions from what should be a lean, economical, brutal B-movie of aliens, Vikings and alternate timelines.

This is honestly better than all the big Hollywood blockbusters that have been released so far this summer.

...ultimately establishes itself as a fun little endeavor that boasts as irresistible a premise as one could possibly imagine.

About as subtle as being punched in the face by an angry Norwegian, it delivers everything you could possibly want from a movie about Vikings and alien monsters.

Outlander is a perfectly acceptable mashup of "Alien," "Predator" and just about every Viking flick you've ever seen.

The creature is about as convincing as a furry dragon carried through Chinatown.

Stunning special effects and bloody battle sequences make it just the ticket for a popcorn monster fantasy. If you want to engage your brain, best avoid.

Most of the time, though, Howard McCain's movie is plain dull.

As clunky and ineffective as an iron-age weapon on an alien predator's hide, this retro-SF rationalisation of Beowulf could have done with less sword and more pen.

Outlandish would have been a better title for a film that's great fun and quite exciting before eventually outstaying its welcome.

With plenty of spattered blood and gore and some nice homages to the Beowulf tale the movie isn't without thrills, though its conceptual ambitions are rarely fulfilled in their execution.

As the ginger offspring of a Ridley Scott/Peter Jackson gangbang, Outlander is a wannabe B movie classic that's so shit, it's just... shit!

Cribbing desperately from The Lord Of The Rings, Reign Of Fire, and especially Beowulf, it's a snorgasbord of awfulness.

Daft, obvious but hugely enjoyable, 'Outlander' is superior trash.