Outcast (2010)

Outcast: Directed by Colm McCarthy. With Kate Dickie, Niall Bruton, Hanna Stanbridge, Josh Whitelaw. A beast stalks an estate where two lovers are breaking up and two magic users are on a hunt.

“Well, this movie was sort of interesting in some ways, and dreadfully boring in others.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe good parts about the movie was the setting, being in a run down apartment building, so there was sort of a gritty feel to the movie. And also the characters were quite interesting.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eu0026quot;Outcastu0026quot; provides you with a somewhat good enough cast for the roles in the movie. Ciarán McMenamin, playing Liam (one of the two hunters) actually did a quite nice job in the movie. As did Hanna Stanbridge, playing Petronella. And despite having a really small role in the movie, then James Cosmo brought his usual grace to the movie. Just a shame that he didnu0026#39;t have more screen time.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe movie takes a long time to build up its thrills, and when they do climax, it is sort of a disappointment, because nothing much actually does happen. You sit around, waiting and waiting, but nothing fruitful happens. Now, I am not saying that the movie is all together bad, it just drags on for a very long time. And the story told in u0026quot;Outcastu0026quot; proved interesting enough in a way.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhat killed off the movie experience for me was the time the movie took to get from A to B, with very little happening in between. Had there been more action and a quicker pace to it, this movie would have been awesome.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnd the u0026#39;beastu0026#39;, well what little you did see of it actually looked promising enough, but not nearly enough was shown of the creature in my opinion, and that also brought down the movie a notch. I like to see what we are dealing with, not being kept in the dark with only rare glimpses of what is out there.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn overall, the movie had great potential, it was just killed off by its slow, dull pace. And that was a shame.”