Outland

it won't make you forget blade runner or Alien, but it defintelly feels like it could share their universe. Its like a western mystery in space.

It’s different but great

Heavy on the Ridley Scott sci fi aesthetics, this is an intense thriller made more dangerous by its setting and more believable by strong acting. A powerful narcotic is causing mine workers on an off world base to have paranoid psychotic episodes. Connery is perfect as a good man in a corrupt world with almost no allies trying to stop the rash of suicides and violent outbursts. His intervention doesn’t go unnoticed and with nowhere to run and nowhere to hide in the small base established in an anti gravity and anti atmosphere environment, the clock counts down to the arrival of a team of assassins. There are small sparks of humor but is mostly deadly serious. From the shocking opening scene to the lethal cat and mouse finale (not to mention betrayals, ambushes and stand offs in between) this is an engrossing update of High Noon, with a sci fi twist.

This really is a great movie. Most of the people disappointed by Outland were expecting something like “Alien.” This is High Noon in space... and frankly I liked it a lot better than High Noon. Sean Connery is terrific, of course, but so is Frances Sternhagen (the doctor), James Sikking (the police sergeant), and Peter Boyle (as ever, the bad guy). Give it a watch. I’ve watched it a half dozen times, and I’m sure I’ll watch it again.

This came out a couple years after Alien and shows a lot of that better movie's influence in its grubby space-workers and industrial set and gloomy atmo. Also, as everyone noticed, the plot in the second half is just High Noon in space, so it's barely a sci-fi movie at all. Also also, nuttin much happens for most of it, because most of it is just a set-up for the not-so-big, too-long and too-predictable climax. Connery and the rest of the cast aren't bad but they don't have a lot to work with and the movie's mostly a zzz. The director would go on to do the truly inferior 2010, End of Days and Relic, indicating that this lackluster performance wasn't a fluke.

This is and forever will be my favorite example of the cinematic western genera. Sound crazy? Put the space station, shuttle docking, and neon lights aside for a second: the new sheriff in town stumbles upon some dirty dealings in the mining town he's in charge of. The corrupt mayor invites him 'round and explains that that in his town, that's just the way things are. Can the lawman maintain his integrity and save the beleaguered townsfolk in the face of well-funded injustice? Toss in the crazy town doctor and the cowboy hit men arriving on the noon train (or space shuttle), and you have a textbook example of the classic cowboy movie formula. Add the special effects of outer space circa 1970, and you have sci-fi / western hybrid, Outland.

Huge plot holes. Chintzy set (even for its time, shotguns in space huh?) A blatantly cheap knockoff of Alien, which undoubtedly was trying to capitalize on that superior films commercial success.

Hello iTunes , where's the soundtrack to this movie ?

slow predictable interminable- really bad

The complete score is available from Film Score Monthly. It's a two-disc set with the complete film score on one disc and the album re-recording and extras on the other. Go get it! It's great! I really love this film and remember seeing it on a huge cinema screen back when it was released!