"Once sacred values like honor and brotherhood have no place here, and old practices, like ritual finger amputation as a form of apology, are turned into a running joke." - Jesse Cataldo

Pretty standard, though violent.

not my favorite Kitano yakuza movie, but it's definitely the most brutal

klasik kitanoyla hic bir alakasi olmayan dumduz bir film.

Not much of a plot, but eh, seeing Kitano perform his typical brutal murders is more often than not entertaining.

'Beat' Takeshi's return to yakuza cinema is disappointing to say the least. His crime movies always have been very violent, but never before violence was the whole point of the film. Story of the film is unbelievably weak and serves only as a way to connect murder scenes. If not for expensive looking cinematography and top cast it would look like another straight-to-video endeavor by Takashi Miike. Suddenly those few recent self-reflective comedies of Kitano started looking much better.

Quite a refined archetype-, rather than character-, study. Beat's decades of dissecting yakuza on film enable him to distill their drives, impulses, perspectives, and nature into a wide cast of characters, with just enough meat for the actors to carve out different personalities for them. Beat's penchant for deadpan, satire, and dark humor still seeps through, even with the slick, polished cinematographic veneer. In that light, the title illuminates his take on the institutions he's presenting.

There is almost no story at all and the entire movie is in fact just a bunch of brutal scenes, but thanks to good directing and cool actors it's still not bad - Takeshi can do better though...

I laughed embarrassingly hard on an airplane at the African ambassador's reaction to having guns drawn on him. Apart from that just a series of unengaging acts of violence and yakuzas acting like 10 year olds.

one small mistake at the karaoke center leads to the ultimate demise of a whole generation of old school yakuzas. brutal scenes that will make you cringe, beautiful directing and enough humor to make you stick to your seats for an exhilarating 2 hours!

This was much too superficial in my mind. Mostly I´m a sucker for Yakuza flicks. I adore Kitano and his awesome movies like "Dolls", "Hana Bi" and many many more but something is wrong with "Outrage". Beside the beautiful, cold and sterile look of the movie Kitano offers it´s audience a poor and uninteresting plotline, which bored more the whole movie. I´ve expected much more by "Beat" Kitano.

A great look at the modern-day yakuza. Not quite as poetic as past Kitano films; probably his most mainstream to date. Very darkly comical throughout, and VERY brutal as well.