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  Review by davidehrlich ★ 16

  You probably don’t need a critic to tell you that “The Outsider,” a tragically real crime drama in which Jared Leto plays a silent but violent enforcer for the Yakuza in post-war Japan, is 100% percent horrendous. After all, when was the last time you saw a good Yakuza movie starring Jared Leto?

  Of course, “The Outsider” didn’t have to be yet another story about a white dude who manages to insinuate himself into a historically inaccessible Japanese subculture just to have sex with the most coveted native woman around and then ruin everyone’s life in the noble pursuit of something no one asked him to do in the first place. You’d like to think that Hollywood would eventually learn…

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  Review by Mark V. ★½ 1

  Each time someone died, I started to wish it was me.

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  Review by matt lynch ★★ 3

  Definitely needed a white dude.

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  Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★ 6

  The Outsider feels like a really good television pilot episode. You are left wanting the story to continue. I’m not sure why some “critics” hated on this so much, but The Outsider is right smack in the middle of my movie watching wheelhouse.

  Yes, Jared Leto kinda looks like Joker, but he fits the outsider role: An American in Japan, who becomes a member of the Yakuza. Have I ever told you how much I love movies with the Yakuza in them? It is awesome the movie is set in 1954. Not even 10 years after WWII ended. The lawlessness must have been insane. I like the old cars, the rain, the awesome Japanese actors and the synth score. There’s…

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  Review by Des Saint ★★★★★ 5

  I read the critic from Variety and could not disagree more.
  Having lived in Japan and knowing the culture and the Yakuza world,
  I find it offensive that some arm chair critic talks like he is an expert on the subject.
  Of course the probability of a Gaijin, especially an American in post WW II war Japan, being accepted into a Japanese crime family is highly unlikely. So what?
  The movie story line is realistically executed and gives us a realistic glimpse into that world, such as it was.
  Jared Leto gives a very understated performance a kin to a young Cristopher Walken ( without the New York accent ).
  He was utterly believable, as was the world he found…

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  Review by nick ★

  netflix please stop making movies

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  Review by Jak-Luke Sharp ★ 10

  NETFLIX (ULTRA 4K)
  2.00:1
  Color 
  Codex
  NR

  This review is going to be extremely short because Martin Zandvliet wasted my time and I won’t waste yours. This film comes down to just a few simple questions, such as why was this actually made? What does The Outsider have to say for itself in the two hour running time? What actually happens? The answer to all is quite simple, nothing. The Outsider is an absolute waste of every persons time, from the lighting to the acting coaches. With all its potential the final product or whatever it is  is sacrilege. I found two things here acceptable, and even then I can find faults. How it’s shot, and the Japanese actors. That. Is. All.

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  Review by Dawson Joyce ★★½

  Yet another average at best Netflix film that people feel the need to be overly harsh on, The Outsider offers some strong performances (especially from Tadanobu Asano) and slick cinematography but suffers from a hopelessly generic script and sluggish pacing.

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  Review by Ben ★½ 5

  The only thing worse than a boring yakuza film is a boring yakuza film starring Jared Leto. Tadanobu Asano and Nao Ōmori are innocent.

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  Review by jpark ★½ 2

  It's said so often in regards to bad movies, but there really is no reason to care about anything Jared Leto does in this movie. His journey, despite eclipsing two hours, never really engaged me, and his performance consisting solely of intense stares and emotionless line delivery didn't either. It's just a puzzling movie in almost every way. Who wanted this? Why was this made? It's not goofy enough to be fun, and not smart enough to warrant it's unbending sincerity. It's polished into featureless-ness, and generic to a crippling fault. The Outsider, in a word, is dull. A bland film belonging to a genre that is anything but.

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  Review by Tim H. ★★½

  Some dude: so I got this terrible idea for a movie

  Netflix: okay

  Some dude: it's about the Yakuza in Japan

  Netflix: yeah

  Some dude: but it stars a white guy

  Netflix: oh yeah

  Some dude: played by Jared Leto

  Netflix: ohhhhhhhhh yeaaaaaah

  Some dude: also the movie is boring as fuck

  Netflix: OHHHHHHHHH YEAAAAAAAH

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  Review by DreamScape40 ★★★

  Had an interesting dream last night that involved me and Jared Leto and other weird dreamworld related stuff. After work I was gonna watch one of his films "Highway" but came across this title instead as it looked interesting.

  Story was alright but the pace was very slow and not much action.
  Jared speaks softly in this that I had to put on my headphones.

  When watching the trailer this song "Nightmares" or its called "Madness" (now that I'm listening to it more it does sound like Madness) was playing and captivated me and is only used for the trailer and not in the film.

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lHKdfWFK44

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