Outrage: Way of the Yakuza

The characters are moronic and lifeless. It's just evil eating out itself, with no other notes to it.

This movie is terrible. Boring, badly acted for the most part, and with an over the top racial stereotype thrown in for good measure. If you want to see people senselessly killing each other for two hours, this is your movie. Even if this is a realistic portrayal of the yakuza, it doesn't save a bad movie.

Great insight into this organized crime group. Def a must if you have academic interest in such areas but could be boring to those who don't. What I found interesting is that these mafia pockets were tough and at the same time held on to traditional values such as respect for authority and politeness (to a certain extent). They are def as ruthless as most organized crime groups though.

There's a lot in this movie that's a critique of modern Japan. The yakuza portrayed here finds an echo in the way many Japanese organizations are today, albeit without violence. Don't believe the negative reviews - despite whatever flaws this film might have, it's head and shoulders above anything from Hollywood these days. Especially don't give credence to Roger Ebert's review - the man simply had no idea what he was watching - a Japanese movie made for a Japanese audience.

Absolutely monotonous !

I just went off of Rotten Tomatoe's 84% rather then actually reading the reviews of the people who watched it. I kept waiting for it to pick up and it never did. The trailer is completely misleading, it wasn't at all what I expected out of the movie. Very boring.

Besides the plot not being remotely close to what the movie is about, the movie was just plain bad. There wasn't anything to like about this movie, it was too long, the story was extremely repetitive and went no where. Even the ratings are misleading, the 3 star average from customers is way too generous and why did rotten tomatoes gave this movie 100% rating? There are better things to do with your time and $10, if you want to know what this movies is about I will tell you. . . "dishonest Yakuzas"

Fantastic gangster movie, very dark, to be sure, but very well done. Cinematography is beautiful. Lot's of black humor too, which I love.

Takeshi has always delighted in taking the Pi$$ as a director, and in bamboozling the gai-jin public, or at least the foreign critics, into believing that he's a legitimate artist. For some reason it's uncool not to like his incoherent, mindlessly violent films - the last one I liked was many years ago - Sonantine I think it was called. In a few of his earlier films he actually bothered to work from a script, and in this latest effort he seems to have dispensed with that little minor detail. This film is nothing more than a collection of Yakuza cliches, poorly shot hits and other action sequences barely strung together with a nearly incomprehensible (good thing you can "rewind" in iTunes) betrayals and plot twists leading the deaths of two dimensional characters, like he's setting up and shooting down cardboard cutouts at the firing range. . None of this is helped by the fact that Takeshi's deadpan delivery is wearing thin as he ages...he looks like a particularly weary old rhesus monkey, which used to work when there was at least a bit of character development occurring, at least with his secondary characters. Now it's as cliched as the Japanese gangsters he seems to relate so well to.

This movie left me wondering why I had wasted the time to watch it. The highlight was the 10 seconds of screen time devoted to the nice looking Python. Maybe I'm ignorant and don't have the depth of background to understand the subtlety of this movie. I didn't like it.