I wanted to love this movie from the minute I watched the trailer. It had potential. It had an AMAZING cast. I will not go into the story to spoil anything. Under a different director, this could have been a solid 10 on my book. It felt rushed at times, it wanted so hard to be a classic mobster movie like The Godfather or Goodfellas. People usually complain about a long movie, but the 2hr length of this movie was not enough to tell the story the way it should have been told. Emile Hirsch was on screen a total of 4 minutes. What a waste of talent. Leto had very few lines, which was supposed to be a way of showing he was an outsider, but made his character kind of empty at times. Tadanobu Asano was fantastic, but again his talent was wasted. The movie needed to be an hour longer, and to be more violent. I mean, these were the Yakuza, not the boyscouts! It still is a good movie, just not a great movie! Lacked a lot of backstory, and needed more character development. I would still suggest you watch it. It's better than most of the crap out there.
Review of The Outsider
