1973 · neo-noir · revenge · mob
The Outfit
Directed by John Flynn1h 43m1973
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.
Our read: The Outfit (1973) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded neo-noir · revenge · mob entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured neo-noir / revenge, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
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- intense
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