I love this movie so much

Fresh and Exciting

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The Outsider is a mixed bag. At it's core it is solid film making. Alas it's story and sociopathic characters we all have seen a million times before. And even worse you can tell how this film ends within the first 20 minutes. Yawn.While the acting throughout is pretty satisfying, the Outsider as a whole features zero originality, and more conceptual holes than Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow V8 Ford.

I wanted to like this movie. Jared Leto has turned in a lot of great performances, and the Yakuza subject matter is not often seen in American cinema. Leto tried his best, but the movie just falls flat.Positives first. Leto's performance is pretty strong, and the film is mostly well shot. The dialogue scenes mostly stick to shot-reverse shot, but there are a few good wide shots of the cityscape and the Japanese countryside that look good. The story is engaging at least: Nick Lowell (Leto) is imprisoned in Japan during the American occupation, and later joins the Yakuza after helping out one of its members, with the film exploring his rise through the ranks.Other than that, though, there's not much else here. The rest of the cast is just average. The writing is honestly awful. Dialogue is half-assed in Japanese and English, scenes don't flow together, and it drags... oh man does this movie drag. The 10 minute opening scene feels like 20 minutes, and by the time you hit the hour mark the movie feels like it's been on all day. The editing is to blame here also. The movie is not paced well, and there are a ton of shots of people sitting, driving or walking for nonvisual storytelling that could be cut in half and still get their point across. The movie also looks ugly. It has a dark color palette, which you would think would work in a crime movie but here it doesn't because the lighting doesn't match the color tones. The movie is lit like a TV show. There are also some baffling creative choices that make no sense within the context of the film. Leto's love interest, for example, has an American accent when she speaks English, even though she's lived in Japan her whole life. Then a plot twist involving one of Nick's old army platoon members comes out of nowhere, and is dropped just as quickly.The movie really needed a page one rewrite to fix the dialogue and pacing issues, and with a better director and supporting actor who have the right feel for the movie's tone, it could have been a lot better (David Fincher and Ken Watanabe immediately came to my mind, but even a pair with half of their abilities could have improved this movie). It's definitely not the worst crime movie I've ever seen, but it's definitely one of the most dull and disappointing. I wouldn't recommend it except as background noise while you focus on something else.

Al the cultura and the effort due it is gorgeous. The people who work on the film gotten their homework very well and it's nice.

I thought it was a good story with wonderful acting from many different actors, beautiful cinematography, set design and costuming. It suffered from too many pregnant pauses and too much silent brooding, though. It's unfortunate, because Jared Leto does those exceptionally well. If there had been half as much of it the movie would have been a solid 7, leaning to 8.