Cage is in rare form here, theatrically dropping lines like "I am the White Ghost," and laughing maniacally when he isn't slashing and stabbing his way through Shing's army.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 2, 2021

A dire exercise in monotony in which Cage's evermore eccentric acting just serves to make the whole thing sadder.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 17, 2019

A boring story told by staggeringly bad actors [...] spouting wooden lines of dialogue.

| Nov 11, 2016

The whole thing is a big mess, but sometimes it is an amusing mess -- and doubly so once Cage shows up. Bless his heart.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 11, 2016

Frankly, it is bizarre that this Chinese-French Canadian production would be so tone-deaf and insensitive.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 13, 2016

For an action movie, Outcast is really boring.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 18, 2015

It's so bad even Cage completists will struggle to reach the end. Abysmal.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 2, 2015

Outcast at least has the benefit of a crazy, over-the-top Cage performance that gives this horrendous film a few hilarious moments.

| Original Score: F | Apr 17, 2015

In other words, been there, done that. And you'd be wise not to go through it again with Outcast.

| Original Score: 2.6/10 | Mar 5, 2015

The movie's only attribute is that it's so bad it might benefit from a Mystery Science Theater 3000-style drubbing.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 27, 2015

In a more gently constructed actioner - that would actually take time and effort to build their Chinese characters -Cage's bonkers moments would be awfully distracting. In Outcast they're the only moments with any verve.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Feb 6, 2015

The status of actor Nicolas Cage's career has now definitively shifted from its entertainingly eccentric phase into its genuinely befuddling and perhaps sad phase.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 6, 2015

A China-set, 12th-century action drama that cuts with the blatancy of a broadsword.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 6, 2015

The barnacle-encrusted plot, which pits little Prince Zhao (Bill Su Jiahang), the rightful heir to the emperor's throne, against his murderous older brother, Shing (Andy On), is dumbed down to the studs.

| Feb 6, 2015

Outcast feels sort of like a Chinese pseudo-historical soap opera that's been crashed by a couple of white dudes, forcing everyone to speak English with vaguely British accents.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 5, 2015

If there's any fun to be found in this dark tale it's the rare scenes of Cage and Christensen trying to out-ham each other.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 5, 2015

The film may be best remembered for costar Nicolas Cage's warrior coif, perhaps his most unflattering movie hairdo yet - and that's saying a lot.

| Feb 5, 2015

Stunt man Nicholas Powell helms, his directing debut, showing little regard for characters or story.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Feb 5, 2015

A few impalings and one deposit in the Nicolas Kim Coppola (Raising) Arizona Savings Bank Of Immortal Monologues aren't enough to help this thing shake its case of the Mondays.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 5, 2015

With its wackily propulsive blend of furious action, cheesy dialogue and deliciously unhinged overacting, Outcast is a so-bad-it's-good B-movie perfectly primed for a drunken Saturday night.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Feb 5, 2015