Review of Outland

Outland (1981)
7/10
Forgotten
1 September 2008
The look and sets of this film reminded me a lot of the Alien films and that's a good thing. The sets look realistically worn and lived in, in a time when CGI dominates the screen which in most cases means everything looks neat and clean and completely unrealistic, it's nice to see hard work going into making these sets look so good. I am also reminded of Alien in it's darkness, both in it's surroundings and it's characters, it brings to light a much darker vision of humanities possible future. I was shocked that I had not even heard of this film until recently, I think this is one of Sean Connery's finest performances and a very underrated film. The characters feel so real, none of them are cut and dry good or bad guys but instead they are people trying to survive within their circumstance. The last third of the film really rises the bar in the intensity department adding a very high amount of tension which is also very reminiscent of the Alien series. All and all a really well done film that deserves way more acclaim and attention then it received.
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