Review of Outlier

Outlier (2021)
1/10
Please Avoid!
7 November 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Normally I'd wish an up-and-coming low-budget flimmaker all the best but this movie is let down by a combination of poor script, mediocre acting and highly dubious messaging that I'm moved to go on IMDB and warn everyone else not to waste 80 minutes of their life on it.

It actually starts out promisingly enough as a psychological thriller dealing with domestic abuse but then the message it has about dealing with this problem is just so wrong on every level.

A woman is rescued from an abusive boyfriend by someone who seems to be a good samaritan but you know from watching every other ever made that it's not going to be quite this simple.

What transpires is simply alarming...the man monitors all her activities, chains her in his basement and prevents her from returning to her family and it turns out to be for the best as this was the only way for her to develop an assertive personality.

It's such a horribly misogynistic, pro-big data message that I recommend everyone avoid this movie, which is also let down by very medicore acting and poor script.

The one good thing I can say about it is that it looks okay visually for a film made on such a low budget.
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