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Summary: The game is in the greenhouse
Review: This action film is enhanced by Sean Connery, luckily, because the theme is rather trite. A rotten manager in a mine on Io organizes a better output with drugs and killers. Then he sprinkles everyone with his money and thus they are all either rotten controlers or rotten submissive slaves. The Marshall will of course succeed, we know that from the very start, but he only destroys a ring of pretty nasty and in no way respectable scavengers. So, the merit is light, especially since the professional killers that come to clean up the marshall are nor exactly very professional and get trapped more than very easily.
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Summary: Beware...NOT enhanced for widescreen TV
Review: This DVD's back-cover states that this DVD is enhanced for widescreen T.V.'s. IT IS NOT. This is a non-anamorphic, non 16x9 compatable DVD. Still a good movie though.
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Summary: An underated classic...
Review: This film has unfortunately never achieved the recognition it deserves. Connery provides a fine performance as the space marshall with the overall effects creating an eerie and tense movie. The whole thing is gripping and I would recommend this film...
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Summary: Outlandos d'amour
Review: This is an odd film - although released some time after 'Star Wars' it seems closer in spirit to the mid-70s wave of dystopian sci-fi flicks, combined with the look of 'Alien'. It's not particularly good, but it's entertaining and watchable - the kind of thing that, if you were swapping channels and you came across it, you'd probably watch the rest of it. Although everybody remembers this for the exploding people, it's still obscure enough to be a little bit culty (a bit like 'Saturn 3' which came out at the same time and was similarly old-fashioned). The effects and the general look'n'feel have worn quite well, although it's still odd seeing Sean Connery stomping around a fragile, pressurised mining base with a shotgun. Connery is, well, Connery, in his lengthy post-'James Bond', pre-'Untouchables' wilderness years (he'd just done the awful 'Meteor'). It was directed by Peter Hyams, who had just done 'Capricorn One' and was on the way to doing '2010'. Despite these three films Hyams is strangely obscure, not quite a star director. He's very much a technically-minded director, and 'Outland' seems as if more effort went into the sets (which are still quite striking) than the plot, which is essentially 'High Noon', and the script, which contains precisely no memorable lines. It's still fun, though.
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Summary: EXTREMELY HORRIBLE
Review: This is by far the most incompetent transfer to DVD I have ever seen. Don't be fooled, it really is terrible. For such a great movie and cast, they cheated their customers in what could have been a superb DVD. There is nothing good in the video quality at all. The sound is very good but don't waste your money on this copy. A great story, it surely deserved better.
The 5 stars are for the story and cast. The actual DVD gets a 1
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Summary: "Outland" has great acting...
Review: This movie deserves more credit than it's been given by critics. There is great acting in it, which is often overlooked. The movie is really about Sean Connery's character coming to terms with himself. Will he continue to be just another guy doing his job, or will he risk his life and his family by trying to take down his boss? The acting is really what I remember the most from "Outland," not the sets and special effects. There's also a lot of humor in the movie, which is always good. The bonus features on the DVD are good, not great. However, the trailer is one of the best I've ever seen. Very suspenseful.
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