Member AlbertV Posted March 25, 2014 Member Share Posted March 25, 2014 Stuntmaster Nick Powell makes his directorial debut on this upcoming martial arts action period piece that stars Hayden Christensen, Nicolas Cage, Liu Yifei, Andy On, Ron Smoorenburg, Jawed El-Berni, the Dasz Brothers, Alaa Safi, and Fernando Chien. The movie revolves around a mysterious warrior named Arken (Christensen), who teams up with the son and daughter of a deposed Chinese emperor to take on their evil Uncle, who seeks the throne for himself. Cage plays Gallain, a former Crusader turned bandit who helps Arken and the siblings on their quest. Brett Chan and Tim Wong serve as the film's stunt coordinators. Filming was done last year and is currently in post. It's a Canadian-Chinese co-production. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Drunken Monk Posted March 25, 2014 Member Share Posted March 25, 2014 Alaa Safi is in it too. He showed some serious talent in "Chinese Zodiac." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted August 10, 2014 Moderator Share Posted August 10, 2014 The trailer is out! Looks like Cage & Christensen will be joined by those 2 famous Chinese actresses - Crystal & Summer. Yes, exactly. This looks even worse than I could have ever imagined, and I have a pretty active imagination. As for Andy On, please, someone get this guy a new agent, he deserves so much better. b9w8aobrMxk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Gwai LO Posted August 10, 2014 Member Share Posted August 10, 2014 Other than "lord of war" Nic cage is one of the worst actors in Hollywood..ugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Morgoth Bauglir Posted August 10, 2014 Member Share Posted August 10, 2014 Lord of War is ok. Nic Cage is much better when he gets to go crazy like in Face Off and Bad Lieutenant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted August 10, 2014 Moderator Share Posted August 10, 2014 Nic cage is one of the worst actors in Hollywood..ugh I wouldn't go that far. Cage was solid in most of his pre-2000 movies - 'Raising Arizona', 'Wild at Heart', 'Red Rock West', 'Leaving Las Vegas', 'The Rock', 'Con Air', 'Face/Off', 'Snake Eyes' , & 'Bringing Out the Dead' are all worthy watches, that saw him working with directors like the Coen Brothers, David Lynch, John Woo, Brian De Palma, & Martin Scorsese. There are actors out there who'd kill to have worked with just half of the names mentioned. Then he kicked off the new millennium with 'Gone in 60 Seconds', and since then he's definitely made more bad than good, with some of that bad being very bad indeed. 'Outcast' looks like it'll definitely be adding to that statistic, although alongside a plank of wood like Christensen he could still come off as the one of the movies lesser problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted September 26, 2014 Author Member Share Posted September 26, 2014 More bad news for Outcast....it was supposed to have premiered in China today but financiers Yunnan Film Group halted it for reasons currently unknown. http://variety.com/2014/film/news/release-of-nicolas-cages-outcast-halted-in-china-1201314409/ Millennium Films scored the U.S. rights with a release date of sometime next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted December 23, 2014 Moderator Share Posted December 23, 2014 The guys over at Impact have posted a review for this one, and as suspected, it sounds terrible - http://www.impactonline.co/reviews/2072-review-is-a-miscast-outcast-worth-catching-or-not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member kami Posted December 23, 2014 Member Share Posted December 23, 2014 The movie might not be terrible but it's not far from it. The story is lame, the dialogues even lamer, characters are completely shallow and uninteresting, the action mostly depends on quick editing. And the film never bothers to explain where it's set. It certainly looks Chinese, but the captions read The Far East, and there's a king, so I guess everyone fights over the throne of the king of the far east in the 13th century where apparently opium smoking was a thing. Avoid it and watch Netflix' MARCO POLO instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted June 18, 2015 Moderator Share Posted June 18, 2015 Review is out from the guys over at cityonfire - http://www.cityonfire.com/outcast-2014-review-hayden-christensen-nicolas-cage/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member AlbertV Posted September 28, 2015 Author Member Share Posted September 28, 2015 I saw the film and I concur with the critics...it's bad. Hayden Christensen wasn't convincing, Nicolas Cage just keeps going south, and even worse, Andy On was terribly wasted in this. I can see why China decided to delay when they did because they saw a dud as did I. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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