Outland (1981)
After saying goodbye to the character of James Bond, Sean Connery had a bit of a downward slope in his career. Not that his body of work was suddenly awful or anything, but he just didn't seem to be hitting his stride anymore for some reason. What was interesting though, is that he diversified into various genres, which often led to surprising if somewhat underrated results. Take 'Outland' for example. This is in actuality a sort of science fiction remake of the western classic 'High Noon' and it is far better than one might expect. Is it an easy watch? No. But what it lacks in high octane, it makes up for in atmosphere and some pretty great performances. On Io, one of the moons of Jupiter, there is a mining colony that works rather well even though life there is pretty boring and uneventful. O'Niel (Connery) is the new marshall of the law, sent there for a tour of one year. He pretty much got sent there after probably pissing off some of his superiors and th...
