Review – Outland

High Noon in outer space. Literally. Sean Connery’s marshal is a little more human than the monolithic Gary Cooper, and the sci-fi version stirs in some additional plot twists (corrupt mine boss, drug pushers, decompression body detonations, graphically sexual holograms and the like), but otherwise this is a pretty straightforward recycle. This movie came out in the middle of the ultra-realistic “grimy sets” era of sci-fi cinema, so the art direction’s sort of interesting. The actors do what they can with the script, but ultimately it doesn’t amount to much more than an occasionally valiant effort. Mildly amusing