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Outrage

Takeshi Kitano's outrage stays very much true to its title. It is outrageous and it is fucking crazy! This is not a film that is highly recommended but it was fun to watch this one and it is worth just a watch!
Outrage may be a film that many would find easy to say as low in originality. It hardly offers any plot to discuss. It is bloody shootout from minute one. It's got enough and more style, cardboard mafia characters, double crossings, gore, more gore, bullets, more bullets and lots of men in black outfits and cars. It is even freaking funny at most times when different men from the opposite sides of the mafia end up meeting to kill one another.
Outrage is a film about bad men and that might be the reason why Kitano thought of making it like this, with just style and very little effort on its writing department! The photography of the film is really beautiful. The shots of the car moving in a straight line are simply awesome. This visual side is very pleasing with cool visuals throughout the film, though there are gore scenes are slightly painful to sit through! The editing, which was also handled by Kitano is smart and sharp. Kitano's comic sense also makes the film a great watch.
As I watched the film, I was able to witness a lot of silhouettes crossing in front of the screen before they found the door to exit the hall. People might have been so pissed off to see a film like outrage from Kitano, but I can't deny the fact the I enjoyed it a lot. It was fun and bloody fun indeed!

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