SmugKitZine Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

bensonmum2 A group of three aliens comes to Earth to . . . well, I'm not really sure why they're here. They steal some guns - old style revolvers and rifles - and start shooting people. Oh, and they also beat-up a car for some reason. Our heroine, Jesse Jamison (Kari Anderson), seems to be the only person in the small town the aliens have landed who can do anything about them. She's an expert with a gun herself and it's up to her to save the day. I would say that Alien Outlaw was trying to cash in on the success of Predator, but it actually came out first. I suppose the aliens are on Earth to do a little hunting as in Predator, but they don't seem to have any weapons of their own. So, like I said earlier, I'm not sure why they're here. You'd think that a civilization capable of interstellar travel would have a better plan than these three seem to have. Beyond the plot's lack of logic, almost everything else is bad. The special effects are poor, the comedy is weak, and the acting is downright atrocious. The film features two old time Western actors, Sunset Carson and Lash La Rue. Neither brings much to the table other than some unintentional humor. In short, Alien Outlaw is pretty much a disaster.As bad as it is, there are a couple of things to enjoy. There are a few scenes that actually (most likely by accident) work. For example, the scenes where the aliens come out of the water are effective and nicely filmed. But the main reason to see Alien Outlaw is for lead actress Kari Anderson. It's not that she's much of an actress (this is her only acting credit), but those legs! Anderson's legs are the real star of the Alien Outlaw.

robertstjames This one is beyond awful. The aliens look like guys dressed in frog suits with cheap Halloween masks and seem to have no purpose on earth but to twirl six guns (for real, that old fashioned swing the gun by its trigger guard thing), bust out windshields on cars (interstellar vandalism...huh?) and from time to time, shoot people for no particular reason (do these guys not have laser guns or any weapons other than what they find laying around?) Not to worry, tho...awful acting and cornball plot fill in the very large blank spaces between action scenes. You'll be so desperate for something to happen that you'll find yourself cheering the car destroying scene. And then turning the movie off because not even Rifftrax makes this steaming pile worth finishing.

doctorsmoothlove My good friend Neb Rogers did some audio work on this film while attending UNCG's film school. The director asked him to create some audio effects for the gunplay scenes, which he did though few appear in the final cut. As you watch the movie, whenever you hear a crisp sound effect, Neb probably recorded it. The rest of the effects sound generic. Neb wasn't credited with his role nor was he paid, though he was finally given some credit on the IMDb page.I live in Greensboro, NC, where Alien Outlaw's "auteur" director Phil Smoot attended university. He directed this film and one other called The Dark Power in the mid '80's before graduating to work on direct-to-video horror movies, though never again with the level of creative control he had on these films. That's a good thing because more than twenty-five years after its release, Alien Outlaw is even harder to sit through than it was back then. It's inept in many ways a movie can be save the near-nudity of its leading actress and some cool costumes. Even the loving casting of Lash La Rue doesn't hide the technical limitations and lack of underlining story. Still, it's far from the worst movie I have ever seen.A poorly rendered spacecraft crashes in central North Carolina and three maniacal aliens hell-bent on destruction are unleashed. This movie like many of its ilk completely adheres to the strange cliché where highly intelligent life forms inexplicably attack people like savage beasts. How did they manage to travel through space if all they seem capable of is acting like mindless movie villains? This film does better than most in this regard by positing the possibility that these beings are only destructive with no other motivations. Maybe higher life on their planet built the crafts to get them out of there. Perhaps if there were any kind of plot, we could satisfactorily answer that question.Smoot deserves some credit by keeping the aliens focused on whatever their underlining objective is. He doesn't add a love story subplot like a lot of these flicks have, though he does show a bunch of rednecks drinking beer and chatting. This should be boring but one teases the other for his effeminacy, keeping it giggle-worthy. Interplay like that is only praiseworthy in trashy productions like this where it keeps us awake. Anyway, they're quickly killed off before the heroine Jesse Jamieson (get it?) and Lash La Rue's character make quick work of them. Their costumes aren't that bad either. They look like they were made from wetsuits and Smoot appropriately has them emerge from the water to attack various people. Alien Outlaw has been released on DVD in the U.S., and isn't quite as bad as its reputation would suggest. At least Jamieson wears really short shorts and the direction is competent if unspectacular. It's still a poor movie, but I wasn't bored enough to call it unwatchable. If you ever see this on a public domain boxset someday, it's worth a watch. Not Recommended 21st of 2011

microx96002 This sci-fi/comedy/western could've been a lot more entertaining with some expert editing, the performances by a cast of unknowns leave a lot to be desired also. Plot lines that lead no where, and a plodding story line make the 90 minutes seem like 3 hours. But if you like cheesy grade z action, with a tiny bit of gratuitous T&A thrown in you might want to lose 90 minutes you'll never get back. The entertainment I got from this shoe string budgeted flick was in watching the beautiful, almost scantily clad Kari Anderson (this was her only movie appearance??), and the chance to see two old (fairly well preserved) cowboy stars from the 40's Sunset Carson and Lash LaRue. An extra bonus for cowboy fans is the interview (more of a informal reminiscence for the old days of the B western) between Sunset and Lash.