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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 22673
Released: November 19, 1997 |
| Our Price: $14.21 |
| Used Price: $2.43 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Outland is another in a long line of Westerns retooled for science fiction. Writer-director Peter Hyams (Capricorn One, 2010, Timecop) restages High Noon in outer space, with Sean Connery as O'Neil, the marshal for a settlement on one of Jupiter's moons. While investigating the deaths of some miners, O'Neil discovers that mine boss Peter Boyle has been giving his workers an amphetamine-like work-enhancing drug that keeps them productive for months--until they finally snap and go berserk. When Boyle sends killer henchmen to neutralize the lawman, O'Neil is unable to get the miners to back him up. Outland is no classic, but it offers solid suspense in an otherworldly atmosphere. Also starring Frances Sternhagen, James B. Sikking (Howard on television's Hill Street Blues), and John Ratzenberger (later to become famous as Cliff on the sitcom Cheers). --Jim Emerson
Outland Reviews:
Good film gone to bad copy! 
2009-12-07 - Outland is a very good sci-fi movie and, for its time, a breakthrough of a sorts. Frances Sternhagen as the doctor stole the show. (The part was originally written for a man and was not changed when she was cast, thus making this role, in 1981, a new concept as a role for women).
In spite of being a fairly good movie, the DVD version is awful!!! It is covered with "snow" and the characters and background scenes are jerky and bouncy throughout. The letterbox version is so small that even on a 52-inch TV, it was difficult to see.
If you can, wait for the Blu-Ray... maybe they will do a better job then of transferring it so it is watchable!
man i really like PETER HYAMS 
2009-10-31 - i'm a huge PETER HYAMS fan . STAR CHAMBER . 2010 . OUTLAND . SUDDEN IMPACT . CAPRICORN ONE . RELIC . PRESIDIO . END OF DAYS . the look of PETER'S films is so pleasing to me . i know he often acts as his own director of photography . he often writes his films as well . it seems to me that a lot of critics are loathe to give MR. HYAMS the credit he so richly deserves for creating a very unique look and style particular to his pictures . i've read so many detractors over the years that i have to wonder if they're sore the ideas did not occur to them first . this film in particular is almost universally critically derided as being HIGH NOON in space . really ? . even if that is the case ( i see a few similarities) , are not both films worthy of merit ? i think this is a hell of a good picture . flawed but engrossing . see what you think of this pre-CGI title . PETER BOYLE and FRANCES STERNHAGEN help you step into this world . it's a facinating place to visit .
Outland Review 
2009-06-27 - I recently bought my copy of Outland before I read all the negative reviews about the widescreen transfer problems. But I was very pleased to see that the copy I got was devoid of any jitters, bumps and glitches. I bought mine used through one of Amazon's sellers and I receieved it just a few hrs ago. The box was practially destroyed but the dvd was in very good conditions as stated by "gohastings". Overall I'm pleased with the quality of the transfer and have no complaints whatsoever.
Terry B
High Noon in space
2009-02-15 - This is an excellent film, even though it steals it's plot from the 1952 Gary Cooper film, "High Noon". It is a very good adaptation of that film, with good character development and fine performances. That it takes place in a future possibility of a mine on Jupiter's moon Io is icing on the cake for any SciFi aficionado. Special effects are of a high standard, and the music score is top notch, perhaps one of the finest ever.
That being said, the DVD transfer is awful. The picture squirms continuously, colors are muted, the image is grainy, and the aspect ratio seems to be somewhat "crushed" in the wide screen version. I have to say this is the worst transfer to DVD I have yet encountered.
Any SciFi enthusiast needs this film in his or her collection, but I would advise you to wait for a remastering of this film. It is a very good film, and well deserves special treatment. Perhaps a Bluray version is worth the wait...
HIGH ON IO
2009-01-22 - Personally, although I'd never put OUTLAND on a par with BLADE RUNNER, or even DARK CITY, I still enjoy it very much. It's obvious HIGH NOON script-theft is not too bothersome either, given that the acting , sets, and special effects are excellent. The action, and suspense is quite good as well.
What isn't good is the transfer. The old VHS tape I still have is almost as good, and this is a much better than average sci-fi film, and it is definitely in dire need of a decent upgrade.
