The Review: The Outsider

The Outsider 5/10

"It's unheard of, however, for the yakuza to accept a white American. Stranger still that the film would call its lead the titular The Outsider, when the yakuza deliberately paint themselves an outsider force as a way to recruit new members." It's a fucking movie, Earth! Sorry. I read some reviews after watching The Outsider on Netflix and immediately regretted it. See, people do not like when certain races are in certain type of movies and they rage online about it. Not I. Him no care. If this was based off some previous shit then I could see people getting so mad but this ain't that. The role Jared Leto plays was written for a White dude from the start. Plus, people are shitting on Leto right now so it was a lose/lose situation.

This takes place in 1954 with Leto as Nick Lowell being the only American in a Japanese prison following WW2. Leto saves a dude from a hanging in jail and ends up being rescued from prison by his crew somehow. The rest of the movie is about him not being accepted until he is and a shit ton of people end up dying. This was an okay movie. The look of it was nice as well as the pacing. It's not something I would recommend really. It was just fine. I guess they could have just not made it and all those non-White actors could have not had a job. It's like getting mad at ass models in music videos. It's as if people want people unemployed.

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