The Outsider

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This movie is unbelievable from every aspect I know. Culturally unbelievable, cinematically unbelievable, story-line is unbelievable. Every good movie lends to it's audience tokens of buy in, critically they call it the, "suspension of disbelief." Perfect movies keep tally near or close to zero, that is, for every instance they ask you to believe the story that is being told they trump up some reason for you to believe it. If the reason they give is too much of a stretch, your suspension of disbelief is broken. Little buy in's and little rewards lend itself towards a huge buy in and a huge reward. This is why we but in to shawshank redemption and why we don't buy into sharknado. In this movie, they just don't care. I am going to give you a list of buy in's that failed, and why I give this movie a 1/10 The movie is called the outsider, so you have to get me from white guy in japan to yakuza member. -1 A military man ends up in prison, no clue why, movie never tells -1 Prisoner saves yakuza members life while in prision -1 Yakuza member owes a debt of honor to white guy for saving his life +1 After getting out of jail, yakuza family employs strange white guy -1 White guy bludgeons another white guy to near death for yakuza family, without cause -1 White guy gets jumped into yakuza gang because he was willing to cut off 2 of his fingers. -1 White guy raises no reaction from yakuza member for banging his sister -1 White guy is allowed to live and work with yakuza while suspicion of a double agent exists - 1 When a yakuza family ensares the remains of a weaker yakuza family, all of the members are spared by the traitor except the head of the family -1 White guy is allowed to enact revenge on the traitor in the midst of the other family -1 All of these things are given without reason and without support from historical culture, known culture, or even make believe culture. The action scenes are decent. Leto is true to his part. But the entire thing is so loosely connected I had to force myself to keep watching. Because despite this being a movie, even the movie forced itself to keep believing itself when there were clear reasons to end leto's journey 20 min's in....and they persisted till the end of the movie.

Yeah, I think like most of the other reviews I'm in agreement that this isn't bad, but it's not really that good either, just pretty meh. Technically, writing, acting, etc. all could have been a lot better. It's a pretty weak and uninteresting story with weak and uninteresting characters that wasn't filmed all that well. More like something you'd expect from first year film students. The underpinnings are all there but they fail to come together and make what could have been a good crime drama.