Take Leto out of the picture and you have an even less noteworthy movie, a yakuza tale with an originality deficit.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 9, 2018

Can a gaijin ever be trusted like family, or will his motives ultimately be self-serving? It's an interesting question in a story that's otherwise completely devoid of interesting questions, but The Outsider is too enamored with its foreign star.

| Original Score: D | Mar 8, 2018

"The Outsider" is a slick copy of multiple, much-better films and 온라인카지노추천 series. It's so well-polished it's practically featureless.

| Mar 8, 2018

Designed to offer Western audiences the opportunity to see a Caucasian movie star, and a heartthrob one at that, in an unusual genre setting, The Outsider rarely manages to rise above its audience-baiting concept.

| Mar 8, 2018

Dull, flavorless, and fundamentally incurious, "The Outsider" is a clueless misfire, the cinematic equivalent of a study-abroad student showing off the kanji forearm tattoo whose meaning he never bothered to learn.

| Mar 8, 2018

The only thing about The Outsider that even comes close to cracking the oppressive shell it's encased in is Tadanobu Asano's performance as Kiyoshi.

| Mar 8, 2018

If the film's not going to interrogate the politics behind its core premise of an army man's quest to out-Asian actual Asian men, it's scarcely worth telling at all.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 8, 2018

Beat for beat, one of the most tediously generic yakuza stories imaginable.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 8, 2018

The film is subsumed by the unshakable sense that Jared Leto is intended to make Martin Zandvliet's take on the yakuza underworld more palatable for American audiences.

| Mar 8, 2018