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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinChristensen manages his fairly dimensional antihero role with physical and emotional aplomb, but onetime A-lister Cage looks and sounds too silly to take seriously. Worry not, fans of Cage's over-the-top stylings: Scenery is reliably chewed.
- Ultimately the ham-fisted Outcast shares less in common with Eastwood’s "American Sniper" than it does with his "Unforgiven" from 1992 and that western’s regretful killers.
- 40New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanCage, adopting an accent that could best be defined as Just British Enough to Sound Serious, adds some welcome weirdness to this otherwise generic production. He doesn’t fit in at all, but then again, who’d want him to?
- 40The DissolveChris KlimekThe DissolveChris KlimekAt least Outcast’s rustic sets and costumes look lived-in and real.
- 38Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreOutcast is what happens when stunt men direct. The fights are marvelously choreographed, the swordplay splendid and the bloody body count high in director Nicholas Powell’s Middle East/Far East quest tale. The script? Derivative, dim and dull. The performances? Not much, either.
- 30The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe barnacle-encrusted plot...is dumbed down to the studs.
- 25RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyRogerEbert.comGlenn KennyAside from providing an object lesson in how Chinese film financing forces some rather remarkable storyline convolutions into generic international action pictures, Outcast provides nothing of interest.