Outland 4K 1981

A remake of the western High Noon. The plot is exactly the same: in the western, the town is waiting for the arrival of vicious bandits. The sheriff has just resigned, got married, and wanted to leave, when he suddenly found out about this. And he must stop the villains. He doesn't want to. He's “too old for this shit.” But he has to. He tries to find helpers, but the whole town is afraid to get involved with the bandits. Even his wife wants to abandon him in his time of need. And he is left alone to face evil...
Here, too, it's exactly the same. There is a mining colony. Somewhere on an asteroid. And old sheriff Sean Connery. Terrible and strange deaths are happening on the asteroid. When he tries to investigate the case, he stumbles upon a sinister conspiracy - he is opposed by a powerful organization headed by the mine boss. And Connery must resist. His wife and son leave him, none of the miners want to get involved. And Connery is left alone...
But there is a difference - namely in style. The harsh, grim, dark cyberpunk of the 80s has taken over this film. A gloomy, oppressive atmosphere, bloodstains, violent deaths... In some ways, it even resembles a certain gothic style: the mine, like a temple of this style, looms over the pitiful miners. The film seems boring, but that's how it should be: heavy and sluggish. Like a rusty space garbage collector. Like that miner's station, hiding death. And there is no escape from the omnipresent evil lurking in the corridors...

At first, it is not even clear: the first victim, having taken a drug, sees hallucinations - spiders. You tune in to a standard horror movie in the style of Alien. But no. There is nothing more terrifying than a human being.

But despite the aesthetic beauty, emphasized by tense music, the atmosphere is somewhat reminiscent of the night city in Blade Runner, so it's not entirely clear why the film gained popularity and led to the creation of comics and a novel by Dean Foster, an author I respect. However, if we recall the final scenes—Western-style shootouts using not blasters, but ordinary rifles and shotguns—then it becomes clear: perhaps it was here, in this film, that science fiction and westerns were synthesized for the first time, giving birth to the space western (you may be surprised, but Star Wars is largely of this genre).

So I recommend watching the film. It may seem uninteresting, but it is beautiful—there's no denying that.