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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The Hollywood ReporterRay BennettThe Hollywood ReporterRay BennettIt's entertaining nonsense with major league special effects, larger-than-life characters and inventive monsters that draw on the "Aliens" and "Predator" models, being terrifying but also vaguely sympathetic.
- 67The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonThe A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonSurprise number one: It's smarter than it looks. Surprise number two: That doesn't entirely ruin it as an action film.
- 63Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaAn enjoyably goofy hybrid of extraterrestrial sci-fi and Iron Age action, Outlander boasts a super-serious Jim Caviezel in the title role
- 50VarietyDerek ElleyVarietyDerek ElleyNot helped by a wooden perf from Jim Caviezel as a humanoid alien who accidentally imports a real alien to eighth-century Earth.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertOutlander is interesting as a collision of genres: the monster movie meets the Viking saga. You have to give it credit for carrying that premise to its ultimate (if not logical) conclusion.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe nuttiest hunk of junk in many months.
- 50Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisBy taking nonsense seriously Outlander never achieves camp. It's a comic book that's mistaken itself for scripture.
- 50Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerSeattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerIf only Outlander was as fun as the premise makes it sound on paper.
- 25Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezThere isn't a single scene in this story about a traveler from another planet (Jim Caviezel) who crash-lands on Earth during the Iron Age that doesn't remind you of another, better movie.
- 20Chicago ReaderChicago ReaderWriter-director Howard McCain bids fair to dethrone Uwe Boll as the king of crap action flicks, and every second feels like time on the cross.