Take Leto out of the picture and you have an even less noteworthy movie, a yakuza tale with an originality deficit.

Can a gaijin ever be trusted like family, or will his motives ultimately be self-serving? It's an interesting question in a story that's otherwise completely devoid of interesting questions, but The Outsider is too enamored with its foreign star.

"The Outsider" is a slick copy of multiple, much-better films and TV series. It's so well-polished it's practically featureless.

The Outsider is needlessly cruel, dour, and slow. No amount of brooding from a handsome leading man can save it.