Our tale begins in a bleak Japanese prison, where Nick Lowell has been serving an unknown period of time for an unspecified crime.
Where to Watch This Week’s New Movies, from ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Today is just the day that a Netflix Original Movie completely desaturates those old tropes, sucking the color out of this gritty and exhausted underworld saga until whiteness is all that’s left. You’d like to think that Hollywood would eventually learn from the mistakes (or even the title) of “The Last Samurai,” and perhaps one day it will. Of course, “The Outsider” didn’t have to be yet another story about a white dude who manages to insinuate himself into a historically inaccessible Japanese subculture just to have sex with the most coveted native woman around and then ruin everyone’s life in the noble pursuit of something no one asked him to do in the first place.
After all, when was the last time you saw a good Yakuza movie starring Jared Leto? You probably don’t need a critic to tell you that “ The Outsider,” a tragically real crime drama in which Jared Leto plays a silent but violent enforcer for the Yakuza in post-war Japan, is 100% percent horrendous.
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