The Outsider -2018- Access

If you missed this one in the Netflix shuffle (where it landed with a whisper), here is the elevator pitch: Set in post-WWII America (1948), a Japanese war criminal (played by the excellent Tadanobu Asano) escapes his transport and flees to the burgeoning American underworld. He teams up with a down-on-his-luck ex-GI, Nick Lowell (Cage), to build an empire. It sounds like a B-movie action flick. It is not. Let’s address the elephant in the room: Cage. This is arguably his most restrained performance of the last decade. He plays Nick Lowell as a man who has already died inside. He speaks in a low, gravelly monotone. He doesn’t scream; he whispers. He is a man drowning in whiskey and regret after his family’s construction business gets taken over by the mob.

But The Outsider isn't that movie. And that is precisely what makes it so haunting. The Outsider -2018-

Do not watch this expecting John Wick . The action is sparse, brutal, and clumsy—which is actually realistic for 1948. Fistfights look exhausting. Gunshots feel loud and final. If you missed this one in the Netflix