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Genres:
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Action /
Adventure /
Sci-Fi
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Release:
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Director:
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Howard McCain
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Actors:
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James Caviezel,
Jack Huston,
Sophia Myles,
Bailey Maughan,
Patrick Stevenson,
John Nelles,
James Preston Rogers,
Scott Owen,
Petra Prazak,
Matt Cooke,
John Hurt,
Cliff Saunders,
Aidan Devine,
Ron Perlman,
Owen Pattison
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Duration:
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115 min.
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Rating:
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(6.5/10)125.5
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Plot Summary:
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In 709 DC, in the Iron Time eon, a spacecraft crashes in the Viking kingdom of Herot, Norway, and the aviatrix Kainan survives. He turns the signal fire on; learns the diction and education of the planet using a machine; and finds that the predator, Moorwen, that he was transporting, had escaped. While chasing the non-native eyesore, he finds a village completely destroyed and is arrested by the warrior Wulfric, believing that he killed the locals - Kainan is brought to Herot as a convict.
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Tags:
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Outlander
In the late fourth century BC, a Greek philosopher named Euhemerus transformed his nation's rich mythology into a semblance of history by rationalising its more fantastical elements (the gods, for example, were reinterpreted as great kings and heroes). Now, with Outlander, Howard McCain does something similar to Norse saga - although by explaining away monsters and magic weapons with elements from science fiction, and changing gods for heroic spacemen, he ends up euhemerising the implausible by replacing it with the only slightly less plausible. Yes indeed, this is essentially 'Beowulf' with aliens. A spaceship crashes down to earth - or, more precisely, to early eighth century Norway - bringing with it a human survivor named Kainan (Jim Caviezel) and the mons...
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