There is deeper Japanese cinema. There are more clever Japanese gangster movies. This is a very enjoyable crime drama that happens to be in Japanese.

| Mar 24, 2021

An enjoyable over-the-top stylishly violent and amoral yakuza film.

| Original Score: B | Jun 13, 2020

Outrage's centermost meditation comes down to what honor really looks like, and what one man's word means to another.

| Apr 1, 2020

Its greatness is almost entirely found in the editing, which is cool, exact, minimalist, and rhythmically modern.

| Oct 4, 2018

Outrage is a minimal but forceful answer to fans and the desires of the international market who clearly desire for Kitano to kill more that the lives of the yakuza are exercises in the art of nihilistic violence...

| Nov 16, 2017

Kitano's deft handling of violence, both in its effect on the viewer and as a commentary on the twisted code of the yakuza, is more than enough to keep Outrage fascinating to the very end.

| Oct 4, 2017

Not particularly impassioned, but I suspect my indifferent, numbed reaction is rather sort of the point.

| Original Score: C | Jun 22, 2013

It is almost as though Kitano is saying that nothing can stop him from defeating the rivals, successors and pretenders who, in his absence, have tried to move in on his (generic) turf

Full Review | Mar 5, 2013

How can anyone can get excited over something so grim and redundant?

| Mar 7, 2012

It's a gangster story, told well, with no punches pulled.

| Original Score: B | Jan 26, 2012

Happily, Outrage is super-cool; it's inventive, funny, and shocking enough that it really doesn't matter much where Kitano has been. He's back now.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 7, 2012

Kitano is clearly enjoying his powers as a master of the form, and the movie invites the viewer to share in his enjoyment.

| Jan 6, 2012

It's like a version of "Cinema Paradiso" where all the murders were saved up by a censor and strung together for a bloodbath.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 5, 2012

Functions more as a reminder of past glories than as a harbinger of new concepts.

| Dec 30, 2011

True Kitano fans will find its title sadly ironic.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 16, 2011

It's retaliation without foundation, all fun and games until everyone gets hurt.

| Dec 16, 2011

A swift kick in the soft parts sure to release some holiday tension.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 14, 2011

The film's engine chugs away, keeping up the solidly enjoyable frenzy of cruelty, with gangster turnover taking place so fast, so furiously that at times it's tough keep the alliances and betrayals straight.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 14, 2011

Be warned that this is a violent movie, even for a gangster film, and Kitano relishes in depicting his characters' ruthlessness.

| Original Score: B | Dec 13, 2011

.. 'Macbeth' by way of 'Goodfellas,' a labyrinthine game of cat-and-mouse bathed in buckets of the red stuff ... a funny, subversive assault on the crime genre. Kitano's best since 'Sonatine.'

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 9, 2011