The Outer Limits
The Outer Limits
TV-PG | 26 March 1995 (USA)
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  • Reviews
    Stoutor

    It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

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    GarnettTeenage

    The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

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    Nayan Gough

    A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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    Aneesa Wardle

    The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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    fuadkhan2002

    I would give this series 20 stars if I could! It is unbelievable how much of the science and technology stuff they showed in the episodes back in the mid-90s to early 2000s, is now an everyday reality. Cyborgs, androids, Artificial Intelligence, brain transplants, cloning, mutating viruses, nuclear fallout, genetic engineering, alien DNA transplants, gene therapy, memory transplants and implants, ESP,discovery of new planets, brain-to-computer chip transfers, extinct animals and gene resurrections, nanobots, evolution/reverse evolution, frisky aliens, you name it, and there is an extremely interesting and realistic episode pertaining to it. These were scientific cautionary tales, for technology having gone awry, and each episode had a moralistic/introspective narration at the beginning and the end that posed these ethical and moral questions. Simply outstanding!

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    captain_freon

    All but a handful of the shows could have easily fit into a 30 minute TV time slot. They stretched things out with filler dialog that added little or nothing to the story line. I liked the old 1960's version better, discounting the limited special affects of the time period. It was a better time of society, it came through in the shows.

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    msudore

    The show is great I enjoy watching it Its like The Twilight Zone and Twilighted Side they all have the same idea. With Space Aliens Monsters Zombies. One of The Outer Limits show showed this man he got sent to prison and while he was in his cell the man next to him started talking to him when he got released from his cell there was nobody in the cell next to him. Another story is about A Witch who gets fat by eating she eats and eats and she explodes into seven witches all seven inches tall all the same existence of the witch. One witch says where is Johnny? the second witch says Where is Mike? the third witch says where is all the food? the fourth witch says Where is all the weed? The fifth witch says Where is all the booze?

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    Minerva Breanne Meybridge

    One of the stand-out features of the original Outer Limits series was the consistency of good writing. Oh, there were some bad episodes like the one with the telepathic rocks, but overall it was an amazing achievement in science fiction.The New Outer Limits saw just the reverse. Mainly, the episodes were formula and, where the endings in the original series brought hope, the new series primarily brought doom and destruction. The reason for this comes from a lack of writing skills. Science fiction writing is like writing mysteries. Of course, there are always the murder shows where the killer gets away with it, but then there is the clever side, as with Columbo or Agatha Christie, where the writer creates a difficult situation, but has figured out how to resolve it in the end. The endings in the New Outer Limits were, for the most part, unresolved and left the viewer with a sense of despair.There were a few exceptions, though. One was entitled, "Tribunal" and told how a man used a time watch to go back to Nazi Germany to a concentration camp, to try and save his half sister from certain death. It is a four handkerchief ending.In another brilliant episode entitled "A Stitch in Time", Amada Plummer uses a time machine to go back in time and eliminate serial killers before they ever killed. Each trip back to a rewritten present slams a lifetime of memories into her head, causing brain damage, a concept "borrowed" for the film, "The Butterfly Effect".Finally, in an episode entitled, "Think like a Dinosaur", the concept of what happens to you when you are teleported is measured to the extreme. Perhaps inspired by the Star Trek Next Generation episode where Will Riker is split into two separate persons by a transporter beam, each of which go on to lead two distinct and separate lives, something goes wrong with the teleporter and the original is not destroyed but revived. So which one is actually real? While one of the doom and gloom episodes, this one still raises enough questions as to the nature of the human soul that it manages to transcend the poor resolution of circumstances at the end.The fact of the matter is that the New OUter Limits more closely resembled the original Twilight Zone than the series whence it derived its name.

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