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The Outsider' Review – The Hollywood Reporter

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At first, I was upset at the ending. I was waiting for a massive battle scene, two rival gangs fighting and dying to the last man. What we got was nothing like that, but somehow poetically made sense. Long story short Jared Leto’s character Nick works for the Yakuza. One member of the Yakuza betrays his family for a rival gang seeking control of the territory.

After Nicks leader is killed and his family is on the run, Nick has the idea to walk into the rival gang and ask permission to kill the traitor. The gang leader simply nods, the traitor walks up to Nick thinking he’s not going to do anything, and Nick quickly slits his throat with a swing. Nick goes back to his family and assumes the role of leader and now we sit and hope there’s a sequel.

The movie was good overall and the ending, even though it wasn’t all out war, made sense. Because if I was running a gang, why would I want a traitor in my group. Even though he betrayed them for me, there’s still a chance he can turn on me. It was a typical Netflix movie. Great cast, great story, but falls apart a bit in the end. Even though the ending made sense, its not really what a lot of fans I guess would’ve wanted to see.

But what do you guys think about it?

Simptastic Joe

The best kinds of movies teach us a valuable lesson. Sometimes the heroes sacrifice something for the good of others and then realize they never needed that thing in the first place. Triple Frontier doesn’t do that.

The movie is about 5 Delta Force soldiers, Pope, Redfly, Ironhead, Benny and Catfish, all down their luck and assembled to rob a South American drug lord. The heist is mostly a success, the drug lord is killed and the team steals over $250 million dollars in drug money. The only issue is the helicopter can’t lift it all and eventually crashes in a cocaine field.

Redfly shoots an aggressive farmer and the team takes some of their donkeys and continue their journey towards the rondeau point. Well, a pair of farmers didn’t take kindly to that, track down the group and kills Redfly. Lugging Redfly’s body and the money is too much so the team decides to dump the bags in a ravine and take what they can carry.

The final scene is the team with a lawyer discussing the splitting up over 5 million and putting Redfly’s share in a trust for his family. Instead of taking their share, they all decide to put their shares into the trust. As they all say their goodbyes, Ironhead gives Pope the coordinates to the dumped money. Pope smiles and walks off.

What was the lesson here? Pope will end up going back for the money and get to keep the $245 million dollars for himself. If the idea was to show that greed can get your friends killed, then Pope would’ve torn up the paper and lived his life. Terrible message in a terrible movie.

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