While there are several mile-wide plot holes and one key under-developed main character, the film emerges as a tight, intriguing old-fashioned drama that gives audiences a hero worth rooting for.
Outland
On Jupiter's moon he's the only law.
1981 · 1h 50m · R
Action, Crime, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Peter Hyams
Overview
On the sunless moon Io, Marshall William T. O’Niel goes toe-to-toe with the corrupt manager of a mining colony and his gang of roughnecks while investigating a rash of worker suicides.
Director and cast
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Top critics, in their words
The failure of director-writer Peter Hyams to put any weight whatever behind the moral issues (crude as they are) makes this merely violent nonsense.
A movie of unexpected pleasures.
Because both dialogue and direction are none too exciting, one's tired eyes wander endlessly over the space base sets.
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