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Beyond Outrage

Who is the worst among them?

2012 · 1h 52m · R Action, Crime
Directed by Takeshi Kitano

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Overview

As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has now become a nationwide war in Outrage Beyond.

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All reviews
47%
Tomatometer
Rotten

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 ...

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times
Fresh

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.

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club
Rotten

"Beyond Outrage" fails to live up to its title as Japanese superstar Takeshi Kitano can't find much in the way of fresh ideas for the genre.

Kyle Smith, New York Post
Rotten

The strategy and strategizing of "Beyond Outrage" ... feel like overkill (if you'll pardon the expression).

Nicolas Rapold, New York Times
Fresh

The narrative haze clears eventually, and the action-dialogue ratio balances out with a succession of swift, punchy setpieces.

Justin Chang, Variety

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