Outlander, being the Beowulf-Predator-Lord Of The Rings spin off that it is, isn't anywhere near as bad as it could have been. OK, so there's not really enough of the beast - the Moorwen - to satisfy most monster movie appetites and the final third is ridiculously melodramatic but the action, for the most-part, is fairly well captured. John Hurt hams it up nicely, chewing as much scenery as bear, and Caviezel is as good as anyone else could have been with such limited material as the protagonist. It goes on longer than necessary and never once treads into the realms of the brilliant but for the brainless piece of 2 hour entertainment that it is, it delivers the majority of the goods intact. Not one to go out of your way to see, but neither when you've seen it will it feel like a total waste of time.
Review of Outlander
