Mark R. Hasan on Outland Outland

Mark R. Hasan is a Toronto-based film and music critic who runs KQEK, a review site with extensive coverage of soundtrack releases. His review of the 2010 Film Score Monthly reissue of Outland is one of the most detailed assessments of the score's character and its place in Goldsmith's career.

Hasan heard the score as physically imposing

Hasan connected the score's aggression to the film's star:

"Perhaps taking a cue from Sean Connery's overt masculinity, Outland is a massive, muscular score that's designed to intimidate and unsettle." — Mark R. Hasan, KQEK: Outland (1981) (2010)

Hasan placed Outland at a turning point in Goldsmith's career

He argued the score marks the end of Goldsmith's purely orchestral sci-fi period:

"Outland is Jerry Goldsmith's last great sci-fi score from a heavily orchestral stance, because by the early eighties the master of action writing (there is no other peer) began to incorporate more synths, significantly changing his instrumental palette, and for a lengthy period, his writing style." — Mark R. Hasan, KQEK: Outland (1981) (2010)