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Outland
Io
UK 1981
produced by
Richard Roth, Stanley O'Toole (executive) for The Ladd Company
directed by Peter Hyams
starring Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James Sikking, Kika Markham, Clarke Peters, Steven Berkoff, John Ratzenberger, Nicholas Barnes, Manning Redwood, Pat Starr, Hal Galili, Angus MacInnes, Stuart Milligan, Eugene Lipinski, Norman Chancer, Ron Travis, Anni Domingo, Bill Bailey, Chris Williams, Marc Boyle, Richard Hammatt, James Berwick, Gary Olsen, Isabelle Lucas, Sharon Duce, P.H. Moriarty, Angelique Rockas, Jude Alderson, Rayner Bourton, Doug Robinson, Julia Depyer, Nina Francoise, Brendan Hughes, Philip Johnston, Norri Morgan
written by Jerry Goldsmith, music by Peter Hyams, special effects by John Stears
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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O'Niel (Sean Connery) has just become new marshall on a mining station
on Jupiter's moon Io, pretty much a job so dreary that his wife (Kika
Markham) and son (Nicholas Barnes) leave him before long, and Sheppard
(Peter Boyle), the guy who runs the station, just shows utter contempt
against every initiative his new marshall might show - which frustrates
O'Niel, but also piques his interest of course. And soon he, together with
the local physician Dr Lazarus (Frances Sternhagen) finds out about an
unusually high number of miners going berserk and ultimately dying under
bizarre circumstances. It didn't interest any of the former marshalls, but
O'Niel needs something to compensate ... and he and the doctor find
perform an autopsy on one of the victims and learn that he had been taking
performance enhancing drugs to a dangerous level. And of course, this
suggests all the other cases were similarly afflicted. O'Niel tries to
round up suspects, but neither talk, and eventually are killed of, as is
O'Niel's right hand (James Sikking). But when O'Niel finds a stash of the
drug with the food shipment, he's sure that Sheppard personally is behind
all this, trying to enhance productivity on his station with
aforementioned drug. O'Niel confronts Sheppard with this, but Sheppard's
not stupid and eventually calls two hitmen from outside to take care of
O'Niel - something O'Niel's aware of since he tapped Sheppard's
communications. But fearing for his life, he has to realize he can relie
on nobody on the station (safe for Dr Lazarus) and really has to shoot it
out with the two hitmen himself ... At a time when the Star
Wars series was in the process of making the science fiction
genre overly kiddie friendly and Alien
explored the horror side of the genre, Outland turns out to be a
very solid genre thriller with plenty of action and shoot-outs and a story
that's actually a bit of a thinly disguised western - and that works for
the movie here, which tells a solid, almost archaic story in a very
engaging way, amidst very nice sets and miniature work, which nevertheless
never distract from the film's narrative but add atmosphere. And of
course, Sean Connery is nothing short of great and leads a very strong
cast. One not to be missed.
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