Year: 2010
Director: Takeshi Kitano
Beat Takeshi uses each successive film as a glimpse at Yakuza life anew. Even a samurai film or some surrealist autobiography adopt masks of cold, sterile violence under his care, each entry in his crazy prolific filmography more economical and striking than the one before it. And so Outrage, his 15th film, makes most action directors seem literally childish by comparison: long sequences of overdressed, aging psychopaths waging sleepy power struggles within gaudy, colorless rooms are punctuated by insanely visceral violence—committed without remorse, and usually by Kitano, whose signature eye twitch is the only sign that he could erupt any second. Outrage is like action film making in Morse Code, patient and testing. Just how badly do you want the relief of bloodshed?—Dom Sinacola
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