Outrage: Born in Terror (2009)

Fresh and Exciting

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Outrage is like watching someone commit suicide by cutting their throat with a spoon. For an hour and a half, they're just hacking and sawing and stabbing and scraping until you practically want to reach over and help them get it over with. What's being killed here, besides the audience's will to live, is the show business careers of writer Chris Soth, actor/director Ace Cruz and actor/producer Paulyd, nee Paul D'Agnese. I can't imagine any of those gentlemen getting another job in Hollywood or anywhere else movies are made. Not at a studio. Not at a production company. Not waiting tables at a restaurant, walking dogs or dressing up like Willy Wonka and posing for pictures with tourists. Outrage is so existentially awful that Soth, Cruz and D'Agnese probably can't even sell sperm or donate blood in the greater Los Angeles area. Forget about not working in that town again. These guys have been removed from the gene pool.It's sad to see Michael Berryman in this insultingly ill conceived, pathetically graceless and astonishingly incompetent debacle, but it's not like he ever had that much of a career. A man's got to eat, after all. For Michael Madsen and Natasha Lyonne to be found wallowing in this stinking pit of dirt, slime and excrement like a couple of hogs desperately trying to escape the heat…that's almost heartbreaking. Professional sports leagues have taken to holding seminars for rookie players about managing their finances so they don't blow their newfound millions on drugs or bad investments and wind up penniless when their athletic careers are over. Well, somebody should do the same thing for young actors. They should sit them down in a room, make they watch Reservoir Dogs or Slums of Beverly Hills and then force them to view this piece o' crap. The only way anyone with actual talent winds up in something like Outrage is when you're either permanently high, need money more than you need to breathe or have burned down and then salted the earth of every relationship you ever had in the entertainment industry. Madsen or Lyonne doing commercials for hemorrhoid cream would be a step up from this thing.About the only thing you can say for this motion picture is that someone obviously made a real effort to take a mass of howlingly stupid and incoherent footage and edit it together into something vaguely comprehensible. And while I admire the commitment to salvaging something out of this abhorrent disaster, they would have been better off rearranging the scenes under the guidance of a Magic 8 Ball and making the soundtrack a non-stop loop of the Benny Hill theme.The theme of Outrage is that it's the anger in your heart that attracts bad things to you in life, but I could be a serial killer and it wouldn't justify being subjected to this shoddy trash. Narrated by the unholy offspring of Sling Blade and Forrest Gump (Paulyd), the story concerns Christine (Katie Founatain) and her three friends going out to sell the colossal cabin of Christine's dead father. There's her sort of boyfriend Try (Ace Cruz) and two annoying urbanites (Derek Lee Nixon and Natasha Lyonne). Once they arrive, the quartet is set upon by some dude with a rifle (Michael Madsen) and his three inbred, mountain man accomplices. People get killed, somebody turns into a ghost, there's a mute with a banjo and a tuning fork, magic rocks are involved and it's all revealed to be one big, idiotic scam. I seriously do not have the strength of will to go into any more detail. It's that bad.I usually like to give at least one specific example of how much a movie sucks, but Outrage befuddles me. It is like the crayon scribbling of a 6 year old and defies critical analysis. I feel like I should pat these filmmakers on the head and say "Well, at least you pointed the camera in the right direction most of the time".This is one of the worst bits of alleged cinema it has ever been by misfortune to witness. Staring directly into the sun for 90 minutes would be a better use of your time.

I won't add many things to what have already said the other users. It's another survival film, as many appear in DVD stores these days. New fashion that vanished in the late eighties, after the DELIVERANCE product movies from the seventies...And some features as THE DESCENT, WILDERNESS and many more put again in front of our eyes since several years now. I won't complaint about this. We of course think of OPEN SEASON, MOST DANGEROUS GAME and one hundred of other films when viewing OUTRAGE. But no user seems to have noticed the little sequence, at the beginning of the film, when Natascha Lyonne sees the banjo player...I guess the director Cruz put that on purpose, as sort of homage to DELIVERANCE, the greatest survival of all time.That's all, folks. This film is what it is. We like it or not. I do.

What a Movie... People of all walks in life should watch this! It drives us to understand our natural motives and tendencies in life. A movie that has a touch of a social issue, an OUTRAGE. I have watched the movie and found out that it touches conflicting views of science and religion. Good picture- it shoots events relevantly in natural setting. Great cinematography- it delimits a particular tool suitable the film production. Great and realistic sound effects. Beliefs were cited on two different ways; (a) vicarious statements of events and facts; (b) unsolicited explanation which creates disbelief, conflicts and misconceptions. This is a kind of movie that had underwent a thorough review. Great! A salute to Director Ace Cruz.

Despite that this film is another low budget film of Michael Madsen. I thought it was great! If you look at what the film makers had to work with and the conditions one must endure to make a low budget film. This film rates a 10 in my book. So it's not your 100 million dollar film. You can't compare a well executed film done with hardly no money to be perfect, but the added plot of the ghost coming out of the body was an interesting idea. This movie was fast pace and entertained me through out the whole movie. I have seen a lot of low budget films and it does not even compare to this little film. thumbs up to the filmmakers that did this. Keep on making films. It was a fun film!