The Outsider Review: 3 Ups & 7 Downs

6. The Incredibly Generic Plotting

If you've ever seen a gangster movie before, you've basically seen The Outsider. Take away the international flavour and this is an incredibly basic, simplistic story of a man joining the ranks of a crime organisation, being spat on for being different, but forging ahead regardless and ultimately proving himself.

"Intensely boring" might be the best way to describe the movie's utter lack of ambition in telling a story even remotely unique. The war between the various Yakuza crime families is incredibly tedious, and it's not exactly difficult to see which characters will wind up dead and how things will end up.

It's not even a fun B-movie rehash of all these tropes either: it's aggressively joyless throughout, which makes it seem that much more conceited.