I liked Outcast in the first hour or so - sure the acting is somewhat wooden, alternating beautiful scenes and a soundstage, with also some inconsistencies in the story, but great fight scenes and a very impressive performance by Hayden Christiansen as the jaded warrior made the film really tense and enjoyable...until Nic Cage shows up in a mop wig, handling 2 live snakes and the worst accent since Leo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond. I like Nic Cage's overacting in most films but in Outcast it simply took me out of movie immersion which is sad considering this movie really had the chance to be a diamond in the rough (Blood Diamond pun intended).
Overall if they could of given the role to another actor or even tone down Nic Cages....caginess (?!) this would of been a solid 8/10.
Overall if they could of given the role to another actor or even tone down Nic Cages....caginess (?!) this would of been a solid 8/10.