Outrage: Way of the Yakuza

There is almost no story at all and the entire movie is in fact just a bunch of brutal scenes, but thanks to good directing and cool actors it's still not bad - Takeshi can do better though...

Quite a refined archetype-, rather than character-, study. Beat's decades of dissecting yakuza on film enable him to distill their drives, impulses, perspectives, and nature into a wide cast of characters, with just enough meat for the actors to carve out different personalities for them. Beat's penchant for deadpan, satire, and dark humor still seeps through, even with the slick, polished cinematographic veneer. In that light, the title illuminates his take on the institutions he's presenting.

Remember how everybody joked that all the characters got shot in the last 5 minutes of The Departed? This is like that except its the last 45 minutes and the 1st hour is just people beating the shit out of each other.

After a fairly decent opening the plot dissolves into an hour long montage of gangster killings. At some point (early in the movie) I lost track of who is taking revenge who. Too little substance compared to Kitano's earlier, more poetic and unconventional work.

Extremely clumsy and meandering, but it's all relatively well shot, and the violence is a lot of fun. Not much substance.

This was much too superficial in my mind. Mostly I'm a sucker for Yakuza flicks. I adore Kitano and his awesome movies like "Dolls", "Hana Bi" and many many more but something is wrong with "Outrage". Beside the beautiful, cold and sterile look of the movie Kitano offers it's audience a poor and uninteresting plotline, which bored more the whole movie. I've expected much more by "Beat" Kitano.

one small mistake at the karaoke center leads to the ultimate demise of a whole generation of old school yakuzas. brutal scenes that will make you cringe, beautiful directing and enough humor to make you stick to your seats for an exhilarating 2 hours!

'Beat' Takeshi's return to yakuza cinema is disappointing to say the least. His crime movies always have been very violent, but never before violence was the whole point of the film. Story of the film is unbelievably weak and serves only as a way to connect murder scenes. If not for expensive looking cinematography and top cast it would look like another straight-to-video endeavor by Takashi Miike. Suddenly those few recent self-reflective comedies of Kitano started looking much better.

I laughed embarrassingly hard on an airplane at the African ambassador's reaction to having guns drawn on him. Apart from that just a series of unengaging acts of violence and yakuzas acting like 10 year olds.

This was classic Kitano and it was nice to see him back in nihilistically ironic form.

Kitano is a comedian first, and here is an example of running with a gag when the room isn’t having it. There are super subtle inversions and indictments of the late-Toei yakuza-eiga tropes: inflated personalities, characters existing for nothing but distraction, and messy “realistic” violence - told with poetry but it’s all genre garbage. They all live and die for nothing which is totally on point, but also terribly true and not all that funny.

Takeshi Kitano and Jun Kunimura in the same movie is almost too much to handle. Those two could sit side by side in silence for 90 minutes, and I would be enthralled. I love the way Kitano handles violence. The editing is especially strong and rather unconventional in a few places, and of course, Kitano edited the film himself. The first two acts are strong already, but the third act once the dominoes are all in place is fucking great.

Having perfected a warm, grainy depiction of the city in the 90s, Katsumi Yanagijima tries his hand at a lifeless, unforgiving take on the city's underbelly with surprisingly good results. It definitely helps to know that Kitano wrote all the kills first and then shoved a plot in afterwards. A yakuza slasher flick.

(Viewed on 11/03/14): Kitano returned to the well after his 'experimental' period was largely ignored. In one sense it's a blatant admission of failure, a retreat to type (i.e. damage control) that stalled his artistic growth and development. On the other hand, two of those three films weren't any good, so in theory maybe it wasn't a bad idea. Unfortunately Outrage is closer to Brother than Sonatine with its overly convoluted plot and its rather artless deployment of violence. Shame.

A simple, straightforward, clean cut, and in effect boring and generic tale about how the Yakuza pervert the highly esteemed traditions of honor and loyalty.

imdb says kitano decided all of the deaths and wrote a story around that. i mean, looking at it that way this is a damn impressive story. ignoring that, you still have a violent, interesting (a bit predictable but not annoyingly so) gangster flick done with a style that's not over the top or in your face but definitely leaves you feeling you've watched something unique.

There's not much in the way of plot, apart from that stupid embarrassing nonsense with the Ghanan diplomat; it's kind of just a bunch of things that happen and then a really downbeat, nihilistic ending. Kinda like Violent Cop I guess. I didn't dislike it.

73.500

Dreadful scenes of violence, but aside from that I thought it was an effective study of a hypermasculine world where no-one is to be trusted.

Something about Kitano's particularly detached, languid style is really hit or miss with me, and all told I think I may have watched this one in the wrong mindset. It just didn't click with me. There were plenty of darkly funny bits and the movie was wonderful to look at, but this felt every bit as "just for entertainment" as Kitano apparently set out to make it. I'm going to have to give this one a rewatch at some point down the line.

Takeshi Kitano is just one of those actors that I can't seem to hate. I love his acting, his movies, his mannerisms. This is no different.

It's Takeshi playing it safe and straight. Which is odd, because it's missing that weird godamn sense of humour or insight he usually has.

Wanders all over the place but still satisfies, despite some really bad bits. Kitano's character is so arrogant and laid back.

An experience that refuses to be remembered. And there's a sequel to this now............so I'll have to watch it again? AGH

Pretty standard, though violent.

"Once sacred values like honor and brotherhood have no place here, and old practices, like ritual finger amputation as a form of apology, are turned into a running joke." - Jesse Cataldo

A great look at the modern-day yakuza. Not quite as poetic as past Kitano films; probably his most mainstream to date. Very darkly comical throughout, and VERY brutal as well.