Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

Bereamic Awesome Movie

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Theo Robertson My Dad is a massive fan of werewolf movies . My own opinion is that you've seen one werewolf movie you've seen them all and they're very formulaic . So when my Dad gave me this DVD it could only mean one thing - a werewolf movie so bad my Dad had no inclination to watch it again . Never a gift horse in the mouth I did console myself looking on the DVD backcover to find it was directed by Colm McCarthy who made the recent hit THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS and who is in my mind a director to keep an eye on Certainly McCarthy knows how to bring a bleak and brutal background to a visual story . OUTCAST is set on the council schemes of Edinburgh and filmed in such a way this Edinburgh is the anti-thesis seen in the festival brochures . It doesn't feel like the Edinburgh I know and love and this is in no way a criticism . Mood is everything and compared to this film TRAINSPOTTING is LA LA LAND The underlying problem is that there's little beyond OUTCAST apart from its oppressive atmosphere . The story itself is often confusing and the narrative feels better suited to a Western where two tough gringos ride in to town looking for a runaway . When James Nesbitt character walks in to a bar I kept expecting someone to ask for soda-pop . There's not a lot in the way of werewolves either and the belated effects are faintly ridiculous which tend to bring the entire film down and makes for a painfully uneven movie

bowmanblue I guess Scottish cinema has gone downhill in the last fifteen years. In the mid nineties we had Shallow Grave and Trainspotting. Today, we get Outcast - a story about... actually, I'm not that sure.A really annoying paranoid witch and her charisma-free son are on the run from... er, two blokes who kill pigeons. I don't quite know why, but, worse still, I don't care. These pigeon killers (who overact and come out with a script-full of 'creepy' lines) may be monsters, as there's one in there somewhere, but you only see it when it's dark.I mentioned that the witch's son is pretty charm-free, however, this doesn't stop a beautiful local girl to pursue him relentlessly. I can only assume that the way to chat up a Scottish girl is to completely ignore them, barely look at them and follow them at a distance of about ten paces - apparently, according to this film, they love it.Throw in the typical stuck-up English baddie and a mix of generally unlikeable stereotypes and you don't have an awful lot of fun in this slow-paced 'shocker' - if you want werewolves, go for Dog Soldiers every time.On the plus side, fair play to the director for using some really bleak settings and shots to create a sombre atmosphere. Bleak settings = atmospheric, bleak pace = bad.I just hope not that many innocent pigeons died to make this film.http://thewrongtreemoviereviews.blogspot.co.uk/

teo-19 It's the same formula we see over and over again for female audiences; the self-sufficient girl, whereby "oh if there's a perfect guy, then it's fate by irony that he turns out to be a beast! Ohh that's hot for me but I guess it's sad that we can't be together ohhhhhhh" All the guys in the film are just weak, wussies, or dumb bullies. You CAN TELL that this was probably written by a typical female who wants to play the part of Hero and Savior, while denouncing others who want to play the same role.Man, I know countries around the world don't want to copy Hollywood - but that doesn't make them great just by that merit alone.

Paul Magne Haakonsen Well, this movie was sort of interesting in some ways, and dreadfully boring in others.The good parts about the movie was the setting, being in a run down apartment building, so there was sort of a gritty feel to the movie. And also the characters were quite interesting."Outcast" provides you with a somewhat good enough cast for the roles in the movie. Ciarán McMenamin, playing Liam (one of the two hunters) actually did a quite nice job in the movie. As did Hanna Stanbridge, playing Petronella. And despite having a really small role in the movie, then James Cosmo brought his usual grace to the movie. Just a shame that he didn't have more screen time.The movie takes a long time to build up its thrills, and when they do climax, it is sort of a disappointment, because nothing much actually does happen. You sit around, waiting and waiting, but nothing fruitful happens. Now, I am not saying that the movie is all together bad, it just drags on for a very long time. And the story told in "Outcast" proved interesting enough in a way.What killed off the movie experience for me was the time the movie took to get from A to B, with very little happening in between. Had there been more action and a quicker pace to it, this movie would have been awesome.And the 'beast', well what little you did see of it actually looked promising enough, but not nearly enough was shown of the creature in my opinion, and that also brought down the movie a notch. I like to see what we are dealing with, not being kept in the dark with only rare glimpses of what is out there.In overall, the movie had great potential, it was just killed off by its slow, dull pace. And that was a shame.