Colibel
Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.
ShangLuda
Admirable film.
Catangro
After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Yashua Kimbrough (jimniexperience)
Tales of Betrayal within Yakuza clans .. A message of Status and Position are more important than Loyalty .. "Times have changed for old gangsters"--- M A J O R S P O I L E R S ---
The Ikemoto clan and the Murase clan have been doing business behind the Head Chairman's back . He wants in on the profits . To please his Boss , Ikemoto asks Omoto (Kitano) to set up a business in Murase turf to keep an eye on him . Subordinates of Omoto and Murase clans start beefing over "respect" and it leads to casualties on both sides ..The Head Chairman promises positions of power within the Clan if they were to "clean up their mess" . Orders from the Top call to eliminate Murase, Ikemoto, and Omoto under false pretenses the avenger will become the new Clan Leader . The question on every bosses mind is Who can you Trust
MartinHafer
While it has been a decade since Takeshi Kitano made another gangster film, "Outrage" is pretty much the exact sort of thing he used to make. Having seen "Sonatine", "Brother" and, to a lesser extent, "Violent Cop", it's definitely a serious case of deja vu here. All the films were very nihilistic--with lots of violence, betrayal and yakuza assassinations. And, as usual, Kitano is completely emotionless as he kills in the most difficult to watch manner. Had this film introduced anything new, I would have given it a higher score.The film is about betrayals. A mob boss orchestrates fights between various yakuza families. And, in turn, once these battles are complete, he then pit the winners against other gang members. It's all very ugly but well made...but nothing more...and unpleasant.
Tony Heck
"When Mr. Murase and I were in prison together we made a pact over saké." After the head of a Yakuza family learns of his henchman's betrayal to a drug dealing family he starts a war that changes everything. This is a very good movie that is equal parts tense, bloody and dramatic. The only problem is that the flow seems off. Going from scenes of murder and finger cutting to long sequences of nothing happening makes it hard to get fully engrossed. On the other hand it is also a movie that forces you to keep watching in order to find out which family will ultimately win out. I did enjoy this but this is not a movie for everyone. A movie with no real good guy and leaves you watching not sure who to root for. I like movies like that. Overall, a good but slow movie that is almost an updated Japanese Godfather. I give it a B.
domi-mihalj
Sanno-Kai is a powerful yakuza organization with a hierarchical structure of several mutually subordinate clans. Head of Organization, Sekiuchi (Soichiro Kitamura), is dissatisfied with the closeness of his assistant chief Ikemoto (Jun Kunimura) with rival clan of Murase (Renji Ishibashi). Since Ikemoto's clan made a brotherly agreement with Murase's clan, he engages Otomo (Takeshi Kitano) to create a conflict that will eliminate doubts of Sekuichi. Otomo is the head of the family subordinated to Ikemoto, but delegated task to rough Murase gang members up a bit takes over-zealously. This act will ignite bloody spiral of inevitable revenge, sadistic violence and dirty power struggle between the clans, with the head of the organization in the heart of the conflict...The versatile Japanese director Takeshi Kitano has built a worldwide reputation in the nineties recording impressive auteur films about the yakuzas. After he shot the film Brother (2000), he left the genre inspired by the Japanese underworld, and devoted himself to film work on a series of art-drama, exploring the theme of intimate and spiritual significance. With movie Outrage (Autoreiji, 2010) he has closed the full circle of different genre preoccupations and returned to the territory of yakuza clan films. But loyal Kitano audience is likely to be disappointed by the realization of the director's return to the genre: the title of the new film is also its program. Outrage is reduced to the naked and brutal retaliatory clashes and struggle for power and the corresponding territory.Recognizable stylistic origins of earlier Kitano's genre works are in Outrage almost entirely abandoned. In this movie we do not come across the hardened criminals with a humanistic line, ready to dispose of weapons and far away from everyday underground enjoy relaxation in the infantile pastime. World of meditative yakuza characters filled with elegiac lyric is replaced in Outrage with world of one-dimensional techno-gangsters filled with blood of unstoppable brutality. Slow poetics of existential doubt is substituted with the stereotypical characteristic of gangster genre - ruthless struggle for power and money.The narrative of Outrage is told through the tangled web of secret treaties, broken promises, betrayed loyalties, conspiratorial intrigue, fierce revenge and blatant treason, and is constantly escalating in brutal skirmishes. Compliance with the order and hierarchy is nothing but a mere illusion, practice of cutting fingers has lost the value of ritual apology and the only thing left is the cyclical violence in which each execution surpasses the previous. Moreover, the motif of constant violence is repeated until it reaches the final boundaries of the absurd. In an effort that the routine of execution do not become boringly monotone, movie visual aesthetic of violence is presented in an extremely juicy graphics and the borders of creativity are examined in the methods of many executions. Painful cries resound from the use of handguns, crowbars, scalpels, dental drills and innovative combination of rope and luxury sedan. The only element that saves the movie from its classification in the exploitation genre is the intelligent use of black humor, to the extent that the movie is at times transformed into a comic farce, and even unintentional slapstick, especially when the character of African diplomat is in the focus.Takeshi Kitano has returned to the genre of yakuza movies after ten years but without any artistic pretensions. Outrage is a dynamic movie showing successive executions sometimes garnished with black humor, which can provide greater commercial success, but also bring disappointment to many of director fans. New Kitano movie is one-adrenaline entertainment and nothing more, unfortunately.
