The Outsider (2018)


A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.

The Outsider (2018)

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Released Year: 2018
Runtime: 120 minutes
Directors: Martin Zandvliet

Storyline


A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.

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Reviews


50
Slant Magazine - Derek Smith
The film is subsumed by the unshakable sense that Jared Leto is intended to make Martin Zandvliet's take on the yakuza underworld more palatable for American audiences.
49
IGN - William Bibbiani
It takes extremely familiar plot points and plays them straight, adding nothing new except the premise - a white American joining the Yakuza - which ultimately has very little to do with how the story unfolds. The film might be a functional crime drama but it’s an incredibly unremarkable one.
42
The A.V. Club - Mike D'Angelo
Asano and the rest of the Japanese cast provide baseline credibility, but they can’t generate excitement from this morass of clichés.
40
Los Angeles Times - Noel Murray
The Outsider is a slick copy of multiple, much-better films and TV series. It's so well-polished it's practically featureless.
38
RogerEbert.com - Nick Allen
As the story bloats to two hours by mistaking itself for an epic, The Outsider falls into a pit of boredom somewhere between the white savior complex of Tom Cruise in “The Last Samurai” and the much slicker kills by Alain Delon in “Le Samourai.”

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