Outrage: Beyond

R

Released Jan 3, 2014

1h 52m

Action

Crime

Drama

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50%

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18 Reviews

57%

Audience Score

500+ Ratings

A detective involves a presumed-dead crime boss (Beat Takeshi) in his plan to crack down on organized crime by igniting a war between two yakuza factions.

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Jonathan Romney

Film Comment Magazine

What prevails throughout Beyond Outrage is a rigorous, downbeat classicism.

Feb 6, 2014

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Tom Keogh

Seattle Times

This is a story largely made up of scenes of men talking in offices, but without the delicious and satirical sense of a whole-cloth gangster world set apart by its own rhythms and internalized rituals of violence ...

Rated: 2.5/4

Jan 16, 2014

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Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

AV Club

Kitano's considerable gifts as a screenwriter and stylist-namely, his talent for staging violent outbursts and conveying narrative through elliptical cuts-are enough to sustain the film as a twisty, cynical underworld yarn.

Rated: B

Jan 3, 2014

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Yasser Medina

Cinefilia

At its best, it's a Yakuza film that stays true to the concept by injecting more gunfights, simple characters, dark humor, and a heavily bloody plotline. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 7/10

Jun 25, 2020

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Charles Mudede

The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

The tension between the past and the future leads to lots and lots of brilliantly edited (the genius of the movie) violence. In the end, no one loses and no one wins

Oct 4, 2018

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Violet Lucca

The L Magazine

Another cash-grab that unfortunately wears its cheapness on its sleeve.

Jun 20, 2016

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william r

If you're in the mood for some Yakuza action, you could certainly do worse. However, things do become quite scattered and it leads to a less than satisfying experience.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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camille l

Alors qu'on s'attendait beaucoup plus à un film de yakuza plutôt classique, Takeshi Kitano livre avec Beyond Outrage une de ses oeuvres les plus conceptuelles et les plus abstraites. En faisant mine de raconter une histoire de yakuza plus ou moins inintéressante (et qui, in fine, n'existe pas du tout ou si peu) pendant 1h10, Kitano prépare le spectateur à accepter le déferlement de violence froide, inventive, presque irréelle sur le troisième acte. Il se fait plaisir à inventer de nouvelles manières de trucider un casting parfois présent juste pour réagir à ce qu'il se passe à l'écran. Et au milieu de tout ça, Kitano est là, magistral comme à son habitude : il grogne, toise, insulte, méprise, flingue et soupire devant ce qu'il se passe devant son personnage, qui n'a rien d'autre à faire que de subir les évènements. Avant un final exaltant. Beyond Outrage est une vraie amélioration par rapport à son aîné.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

I was utterly amazed at how truly boring this movie was. The pacing was terrible, with a lot of conversations taking place with men sitting around tables, interspersed with a few scenes of faux-violence (where deaths occur but outside of the visual field of the camera, just bodies lying on the ground). What was supposed to be a clever scheme by the police to get rival yakuza to go to war, just turned into a convoluted game that misdirected even the audience. Poorly directed and edited.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/24/23

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dustin d

Once again, Takeshi Kitano has made another atmospheric and character-driven crime film. Like many films in the Japanese crime genre, it is a little bit convoluted and difficult to follow, but that is sort of the point. I imagine in the real world yakuza politics are staggeringly complex, individuals are feeling their way through the dark, and what you don't know can get you killed. The better yakuza films accurately portray that. Where this movie suffers, like some lesser yakuza films, is in the tone. You don't know what Kitano is trying to get across. With the rock soundtrack blaring while the gangsters go on a killing spree, it can seem like yakuza violence is exciting and glorified, which is not what the message the film should be going for, and I don't think it is what Kitano meant. Yakuza films shouldn't be cheerleading crime, but instead depict a deglorified picture of the violence and the lowlifes who prey on society to satisfy their greed. Kitano could have accomplished that simply by toning down the soundtrack, and by presenting a more balanced portrayal of the police so Otomo's "code" doesn't seem valiant by comparison.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Beat Takeshi is at it again. It follows the same theme of lies and treason.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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Audience Member

Somehow the whole Yakuza thing looks very simple. The pride and protection of the family is lost because of one lousy cop? I don't think so...

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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Nishida Toshiyuki

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Tomokazu Miura

Kato

Ryô Kase

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Fumiyo Kohinata

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Synopsis

A detective involves a presumed-dead crime boss (Beat Takeshi) in his plan to crack down on organized crime by igniting a war between two yakuza factions.

Director: Takeshi Kitano
Screenwriter: Takeshi Kitano
Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
Production Co: Warner Bros., Bandai Visual Co. Ltd., TV Tokyo
Rating: R (Strong Violence|Language|Brief Sexual Images)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 3, 2014, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 9, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $3.6K
Runtime: 1h 52m

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