chris9999000 Title says it all and I like all Japanese and Chinese movies, even the cheesy ones but this one right here was so dry and uneventful you would think it was written at the high school level. Seemed to me that when the wrote the story the went to Wikipedia and typed in Japanese culture and went off of that only. Oh and forgot to menchion Jared stares a lot into the distance for no reason or explanation. I don't ever write reviews unless they are great or horrible this got one Star for a reason...

mizsuz I thought it was a good story with wonderful acting from many different actors, beautiful cinematography, set design and costuming. It suffered from too many pregnant pauses and too much silent brooding, though. It's unfortunate, because Jared Leto does those exceptionally well. If there had been half as much of it the movie would have been a solid 7, leaning to 8.

P-frish We watched The Outsider because of its high ratings, especially the 10s. We have realized that those reviewers have totally different sensibilities than we do. They apparently think, and even feel, nothing about extreme violence, particularly long graphic gruesome scenes of finger amputations and throat slittings. The entire film seems to be filmed in slow motion in dim blue light. Of course, we can not say for sure because we exceeded our limits for gore, sadism, and general psychotic/sociopathic behavior lovingly lingered upon. We bailed and read the remainder of the plot on Wikipedia. Advise you do the same.

edavantes I was very excited to watch this movie because I loved the premise and the reviews here recommended it. Boy was I let down.The movie is slow, but not in a good way. It's not slow to immerse you in the old world of Japan, or even to give you some sort of visceral feel. It's just slow and then like clockwork something very violent happens. I don't even understand why he's so violent. There's just no soul behind anything.It is predictable, which is not the worst thing in the world but combine that with a slow pace and uncompelling characters and it's another fatal flaw.Gratuitous violence began to make the movie a bit comical.