The Outsider

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The Outsider

TV-MA

2018

2h 0m

Crime

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Mystery & Thriller

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After World War II, an American POW stays in Japan and works his way through the rituals and hardships of the yakuza to become a member of the crime organization.

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Critics Consensus

Starring a disengaged Jared Leto and stuffed with gangster cliches, The Outsider never distinguishes itself enough to gain admittance into the inner circle of good yakuza pictures.

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Nick Allen

RogerEbert.com

03/09/2018

1.5/4

Take Leto out of the picture and you have an even less noteworthy movie, a yakuza tale with an originality deficit.

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David Ehrlich

IndieWire

03/08/2018

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Can a gaijin ever be trusted like family, or will his motives ultimately be self-serving? It's an interesting question in a story that's otherwise completely devoid of interesting questions, but The Outsider is too enamored with its foreign star.

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

03/08/2018

"The Outsider" is a slick copy of multiple, much-better films and TV series. It's so well-polished it's practically featureless.

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Dan Jackson

Thrillist

01/29/2021

The Outsider is needlessly cruel, dour, and slow. No amount of brooding from a handsome leading man can save it.

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Christian Gallichio

The Playlist

10/24/2018

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It's hard to fault The Outsider too much though, as it will predictably fall into the black hole that is Netflix original movies, so here's hoping that Zandvliet, Leto, and especially Hjelm move on to better things in the near future.

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Alci Rengifo

Entertainment Voice

08/26/2018

The Outsider feels like the first draft of a story that could have worked with more tweaks and energy. It is another case of a project featuring talented people, but never truly exploiting their talents.

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Nicholas I

@Nickybags Jan 16

Great example of a movie the critics are uniformly wrong about.

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Drew B

@Drewbert Dec 29

This was somewhat predicable however, very well done with cinematography bringing the viewer into the Japanese times (1954) and leaving us rooting for the two main characters who are the most honorable members of the story. If I were to say two things about this it would be thank you and let's have the sequel.

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Trentham B

@Trentham Dec 8

This is my first time doing a review. I'd kept this film on my list of movies to watch on Netflix for a while now, as the description piqued my interest. I'd been shallow enough to not actually watch it for all this time because of the low rating from critics on here. After watching it tonight, I'm going to stop checking a movies critic rating, or at least not let that influence my watching a film or not. The tone, pace, acting, visuals, dialogue, and story were all very cohesive and made up a great film. There were multiple moments that I could really feel the emotions being presented, especially in the silence in these moments. 5 stars recommend this film, it was a refreshing take on the overly saturated "gangster" genre, props to the team involved in its making.

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tommy J

Dec 1

I felt kinda bored, I feel as though jared leto wasnt a good choice, the part he plays seems to be better fitting for a 20 something year old not a 50 year old with botox. Emil hirsch would have been a better selection rather than him playing an unimportant role. The most exciting part of the movie was leto cutting his finger tips off.

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Humungus H

Nov 16

It’s a good film. I live in Tokyo, and I will always be an outsider there . I can relate. I could only imagine what it would be like to be to be yakuza an outsider in that organization . This film explores this culture , it’s interesting time period 1950’s Japan

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Zach R

Oct 10

A little slow, but a fun and cinematic watch!

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Synopsis

After World War II, an American POW stays in Japan and works his way through the rituals and hardships of the yakuza to become a member of the crime organization.

Director: Martin Zandvliet
Producer: Ken Kao, Art Linson, John Linson
Screenwriter: Andrew Baldwin
Production Co: Linson Entertainment, Waypoint Entertainment
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 9, 2018
Runtime: 2h 0m

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