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Critics Consensus: Outrage packs enough violent impact to satisfy - even if fans of writer-director Takeshi Kitano will find themselves familiar with many of its ingredients.
Critic Consensus: Outrage packs enough violent impact to satisfy - even if fans of writer-director Takeshi Kitano will find themselves familiar with many of its ingredients.
All Critics (43) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (9)
How can anyone can get excited over something so grim and redundant?
It's a gangster story, told well, with no punches pulled.
Kitano is clearly enjoying his powers as a master of the form, and the movie invites the viewer to share in his enjoyment.
It's like a version of "Cinema Paradiso" where all the murders were saved up by a censor and strung together for a bloodbath.
True Kitano fans will find its title sadly ironic.
It's retaliation without foundation, all fun and games until everyone gets hurt.
Its greatness is almost entirely found in the editing, which is cool, exact, minimalist, and rhythmically modern.
Outrage is a minimal but forceful answer to fans and the desires of the international market who clearly desire for Kitano to kill more that the lives of the yakuza are exercises in the art of nihilistic violence...
Kitano's deft handling of violence, both in its effect on the viewer and as a commentary on the twisted code of the yakuza, is more than enough to keep Outrage fascinating to the very end.
Not particularly impassioned, but I suspect my indifferent, numbed reaction is rather sort of the point.
It is almost as though Kitano is saying that nothing can stop him from defeating the rivals, successors and pretenders who, in his absence, have tried to move in on his (generic) turf
Happily, Outrage is super-cool; it's inventive, funny, and shocking enough that it really doesn't matter much where Kitano has been. He's back now.
Definitely a solid yakuza movie overall, but one that's just a complete and utter mess structurally. The last 20 minutes, however dark and grim, certainly pick up the slack. I think the problem is that the movie probably tries to be too complex for its own good. I liked seeing the inner workings of this criminal enterprise but do you really need as many subplots and as many characters as this movie had. It made the movie feel about an hour longer than it really was. I liked the idea of these two families sort of duking it out for control but the movie is full of more betrayals than you can shake a stick at. If there had been fewer, it might have made more impact but they still served a purpose in that you can never trust anybody when it comes to being more successful at what they do. The movie is well put together, it has solid performances and plenty of action to negate, somewhat, a lot of these faults. It, however, doesn't help the major one...how its story is structured. I also heard there was going to be a sequel. If you watch the movie, this sounds like an absurd idea considering where MOST of the characters end up at, and it's not that hard to guess considering the 'job' they do. Anyway a solid, if messy, movie.
Super Reviewer
Nobody retires of old age in this profession, the rituals of "brotherhood" are just another form of lying. Kitano visits once more the theme of yakuza as "manchilds", but it feels he's just going trough the motions of the genre. The violence feels dry, and not as effective or meaningful. Kitano's average effort is still better than most gangster flicks out there, but feel no rush to see this one.
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