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  Review by Todd Gaines ★★★★ 10

  One of the coolest mother fuckers alive Takeshi fuckin' Beat fuckin' Kitano directs, writes, and stars in Outrage, a tale of one bad mother fucking Yakuza who is old-school to the last beat. Lunch with Champ. A bar tab that fucks everything up. A finger-apology. Dead-yakuza-at-the-door. Death finds you on the midnight train. Extreme-no-fuckin'-novacane-to-ease-the-fuckin'-pain dental-work. A game of good cop, bad gangster. An embassy casino that is worth more than your country. The old dead-hooker-in-the-bed trick never fails. A giant-ass snake in the shower. Keep talking like that and we will fuckin' kill you. It pays to learn English. Hyper-intense cooking. A bathhouse bloodbath. Open up and say Ahh mother fucker. Shut up and dig you fuckin' idiot. A long-ass…

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  Review by YI JIAN ★★★½ 22

  Amidst all the violence, one couldn't help but step back and look at how little substance there actually is in the film. Outrage markets itself as a film about yakuza politics but really, it might just as well be a 90's horror film. Death after death after death, so many blood spilled there's hardly any impact anymore. Plus some of the death scenes were so bizarre the only reaction I could muster up with was a nervous chuckle. Like I said, 90's horror film.

  It's always fun to see a situation gradually getting out of control but only if it's gradual. Slowly, let the tension build up, you know? Outrage is like that impatient kid (me.) that would skip a…

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  Review by Rafael Jovine ★★★★½ 13

  Action!: The Campy, The Violent and The Plot Twist— Kitano's Lingering Violence

  The Godfather goes GANGSTA BABYYYY!

  Man, it's great to see Takeshi's touch hasn't ebbed away despite such a lackluster run through spoof comedies and sentimental dramas. It is the director at his most methodical and ambitious - though I still believe that some of his early work had a larger dose of violence. Some of the kills in here are brutal, like the one at the dentist or the death with the tongue. Just like some of the best work of Scorsese and the aforementioned "The Godfather", the film plays almost like a family drama wrapped in an intricate gangster film about a yakuza leader who gets screwed…

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  Review by Asjad ★★★★★

  More backstabbings in this than my high school.

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  Review by yam ★★★★½ 11

  *no spoilers*
  Sublime Violence and Intense Sincerity: The Poetic Destruction of Takeshi Kitano . 16
  with BjorkShandy

  Bullets don’t pierce flesh, for that would imply friction or impact, they simply fly through it. The blade doesn’t cut, is slices, even if it is blunt, struggle, hardship, has been discarded off. Pain, agony, inevitable results to their actions, hidden by the steely façade. Behind the sleek cars and polished suits, there are paper men, fulfilling their orders, sacrificing their lives for people whom don’t give two shits about them, people whom they would happily double-cross if they longed for anything other than this indifference. We see reflections, from glass, shoes, everything reflects, projects the images that the world around them demands…

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  Review by Kyle Zeman ★★★★

  Beat Takeshi rocks another one.  Probably the most intricate and intertwined crime story I’ve ever set my eyes on

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  Review by Bob McQueen ★★★★ 2

  Wow. Just a cold, ruthless gangster flick. Minimal music was used which gave it a quiet coldness. The constant backstabbing of these gangsters, the politics and formalities. Can't wait to see the other two!

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  Review by comrade_yui ★★★

  violence as mere procedure, killing's as easy as breathing, always with permission. spaces devoid of detail or personality immediately escalating into heinous gore at the slightest provocation, a rube goldberg machine of mishap and death.

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  Review by More_Badass ★★★★

  Trust no one, kill everyone before they fuck you over. That about sums up Outrage’s plot in ten words. An intricate weave of cutthroat cutthroats, layers upon layers of subordinates all eying the next rung and paving their way through butchery.

  Think I might’ve doubled the length with all my rewinding of the first act to ensure I was following along with names and who’s who and which family. Paid off though, once I settled into Kitano’s savage groove. His ever-escalating script counters slight characterizations with a surplus of strong personalities; the teetering tower of formalities and tenuous allies snowballs into a darkly absurd ouroboros of Yakuza violence.

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  Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★½

  Takeshi Kitano’s first Outrage film plays like a reaction to all the complains among western cinephiles/critics/programmers about his recent work. As meta films goes this could not be a simpler case of beware of what you want: Kitano returns to his gangster film roots but empty it out of all the poetic tics that made films like Sonatine or Hana Bi popular in the festival circuit in the first place. There is no meaning here, just mayhem. Essentially a remake of Mario Bava’s Bay of Blood with a bunch of greedy Yakuzas dispatching each other in more and more creative bloody ways. The only way Kitano could drive the point home more is if he had called it “Yakuza Slasher”. Kitano ingenuity never falters, but the film also never complete leaves its straight jacketed conception.

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  Review by Finny! ★★★★

  ''How many fucking tongues do you have?''

  Sleazy, grim, blunt.
  Outrage is Takeshi Kitano's loving tribute to the Japanese V-cinema movement, and, more specifically, gokudo films.

  A yakuza thriller constructed almost like a horror film, with a distinct vein of black comedy running through the entire thing, Outrage is self-consciously shallow.

  A tribute and a throwback to the Japanese straight-to-video gangster flicks of the 1980s and 1990s, Outrage plays out exactly how you'd expect.
  Every beat fits the classic Yakuza mould, tropes are played into, characters are clichés... even the film's weirder moments are a throwback to the oddball sadism of straight-to-video eager-to-please yakuza movies, known for occasionally featuring jarring moments of extreme horror-movie-esque violence.
  But Outrage is not a…

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  Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★½ 4

  Old School Yakuza's Gone Wild!

  This film gives a whole new meaning to...

  Give him the finger!

  In Your Ear!

  X marks the spot!

  How's it Hanging!

  Shooting the breeze!

  Explosive action!

  And my personal favorite...

  Bite Your Tongue!

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