From Amazon.co.uk. Outland is another in a long line of Westerns retooled for science fiction. Writer-director Peter Hyams (Capricorn One, 2010, Timecop) re-stages High Noon in outer space, with Sean Connery as O'Neil, the marshal for a settlement on one of Jupiter's moons.While investigating the deaths of some miners, O'Neil discovers that mine boss Peter Boyle has been giving his workers an.
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Peter Hyams’s Outland is a concept that sounds great in theory; the Sheriff on a space colony on one of Jupiter’s moons deals with a conspiracy of psycho-criminals, but the execution leaves much to be desired.The nice production design feels completely lifted from Alien, as does the Jerry Goldsmith score, and while the atmosphere is well done, the film fails to nail the climax due to.
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There's an alternative universe out there, somewhere, where Outland is rightly recognised as the minor sci-fi classic that it is. While I am a recognised Peter Hyams fanboy, and he really is one of the most consistently enjoyable and entertaining directors that Hollywood have had in the last 40 years, I first saw Outland long before I cared about directors and stuff like that.
The year is. Claire Randall a former combat nurse is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenachmdashan ldquooutlanderrdquomdashin a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord. Hurled back in time by forces.
Outland is less like a High Noon-style western aside from some similarities in its final 40 minutes, and more akin to a post-Watergate, sci-fi conspiracy thriller that Peter Hyams was known for. By focusing on the investigative element for at least an hour, before delivering quasi-bland action-thrills, it doesn't have the drama or full-bore.