If you ever wake up chained to a death machine, and a mysterious voice says that they will only let you go if you can name every gangster movie cliché ever, you need only think of The Outsider, which premieres on Netflix on March 9th. Martin Zandvliet’s crime drama rattles off every familiar plot point and character type that a fan of the genre could think of, without adding anything particularly interesting to distract you.
But if you’re not planning to square off against “Film Nerd Jigsaw,” The Outsider is a dreary genre exercise, starring Jared Leto (Suicide Squad) as Nick Lowell, an American who enters the world of Japanese organized crime, better known as The Yakuza, in 1954.
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But if you’re not planning to square off against “Film Nerd Jigsaw,” The Outsider is a dreary genre exercise, starring Jared Leto (Suicide Squad) as Nick Lowell, an American who enters the world of Japanese organized crime, better known as The Yakuza, in 1954.
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