A catastrophic box office bomb that blends swordplay with sci-fi emerges from smoldering wreckage on streaming

Individually, it would be fair to say that science fiction, fantasy, and the historical epic are three genres famed for being consistently inconsistent, so there were really only two ways 2008’s Outlander was going to turn out; it would either be a cult favorite sleeper hit, or a disaster of epic proportions. Sadly, it was the ladder.

There’s a decent and suitably insane high concept in play that ties the story together, with Jim Caviezel’s alien soldier doing his damndest to kill his extraterrestrial arch-nemesis, only for some temporal shenanigans to drop him in ancient Norway instead, where the Viking populace don’t take too kindly to the mysterious interloper literally crash-landing on their turf.