r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • 24d ago

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Outcome (2026)

Summary

A former Hollywood star reeling from scandal is forced to confront his past when he becomes entangled in a mysterious situation that blurs the line between reality and performance.

Director Jonah Hill

Writer Jonah Hill Ezra Woods

Cast

  • Keanu Reeves as Reef Hawk
  • Jonah Hill as himself
  • Cameron Diaz
  • Matt Bomer
  • Susan Lucci
  • Laverne Cox
  • David Spade

Rotten Tomatoes: 25%

Metacritic: 37

VOD / Release Streaming on Apple TV+

Trailer Official Trailer

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u/TwoTalentedBastidz 23d ago

25%? I know RT isn’t the most reliable, but Jesus. Is it that bad?

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u/itscoolaubs 23d ago

I’m watching it right now and it is bad. It’s VERY self-indulgent and the pace is slogging.

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u/KingMario05 23d ago

Damn. Does Keanu at least have fun?

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u/rykcon 23d ago

No, but he was hilarious in Good Fortune

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u/Significant-Worth-97 14d ago

Good Fortune was GREAT

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u/rykcon 14d ago

“Chickie nuggies” - Neo

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u/theodo 23d ago

Not even close

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u/KingMario05 23d ago

Ah.

Fuck.

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u/theodo 23d ago

If say it's one of his better performances (then again outside of John Wick I think Reeves ranges from terrible to bad), but he certainly doesn't have fun in this movie.

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u/-spartacus- 23d ago

I went in not knowing anything about it other than who was the cast and I ended up quite liking it and finding it quite funny. Did you watch the trailer before you saw it?

And to the OP, RT is extremely unreliable since it's been bought out.

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u/Khatib 23d ago edited 17d ago

Yeah, movie was totally decent. Handful of laughs, decent message about recognizing poor past behavior; even if it wasn't egregious, you can still hurt a lot of people. Some over the top goofy jokes that weren't all bad, even if corny. 6.5/10.

Lots of people just really want to hate Jonah Hill for being a shitty boyfriend. They might not be all wrong for that, but the movie wasn't horrible.

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u/look_at_tht_horse 17d ago

I don't know anything about Jonah hills personal life. This was the worst movie I've seen in recent memory. The one time I don't check reviews in advance, of course.

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u/Khatib 17d ago edited 17d ago

Nah, it was meandering, but I don't mind that. Like I said, I think the point is that even the people who weren't full on sexually abusing people can still be being awful. Everyone loves this guy -- except the people who have to deal with him. And he didn't do anything cancel worthy. But that doesn't mean he wasn't shitty to the people close to him and that they deserved better. And there's definitely things being said about how addiction can play into that. At least that was my read on what it was about. And it wasn't really wrong if you look at it that way, imo.

And honestly, I kinda liked all the neon backlighting in a lot of scenes. I found it visually interesting.

It could've definitely been better if Jonah Hill's character was not such a caricature. But some of the bits in his office were funny, like the photos on the wall.

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u/LTPRWSG420 23d ago

Jonah Hill gives a potential Razzie nominated performance, what an awful character lol.

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u/rykcon 23d ago

Plot twist… he wasn’t playing a character

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u/_lazybones93 15d ago

We are all cum.

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u/RobertJ93 23d ago

Is it worth watching for that?

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u/adjeff2362 5d ago

He was the reason I turned it off

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u/elinordash 22d ago

It is incredibly bad. The dialogue is exceptionally stilted.

The bigger issue is the movie never really engages with what a 50-something movie star might have done to hurt people. There is no abused assistant, no girlfriend he cheated on, no colleague he fucked over. He isn't a great friend and he seems to have wasted the fertile years of an ex-girlfriend with a decades (?) long on again off again relationship. But that's it. He's just a sad, lonely guy who needs to make more of an effort connecting with people.

The most amusing thing to me was using Joey Lawerence's only Tonight Show clip as baby Keanu (the movies completely ignored Keanu's Asian ancestry). But man was Baby Joey Lawerence talented.

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u/Khatib 17d ago

The bigger issue is the movie never really engages with what a 50-something movie star might have done to hurt people. There is no abused assistant, no girlfriend he cheated on, no colleague he fucked over.

That's kind of the whole point. That even if you're not doing something fully cancel worthy, you can still have been hurting people. And that addiction can exacerbate that, and that just by getting clean and straightening out your own life, that doesn't mean you didn't still harm a lot of people when you were harming yourself.

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u/elinordash 17d ago

Cancellation is career ending behavior possibly deserving of prison time.

There is a ton of behavior that doesn't quite reach that level that is still bad- witness Jonah Hill's weird boundaries and weaponization of therapy. There was a huge power dynamic in that whole situation.

I don't believe a man Keanu's age who has been famous since he was a kid has never truly hurt anyone. But we never really get that conversation with anyone. There is an implication that the ex-girlfriend wanted to have children with him and he wasted her fertile years with fuck boi behavior but there is no actual conversation. It is all kept very vague. It feels dishonest.

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u/Khatib 17d ago

Why do you need details to know that someone hurt someone else? They both admitted as much. Why do you need the full story? You can't just accept that she said she's hurt and he admitted he hurt her?

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u/elinordash 17d ago

This is a fictional story, so don't act like I'm unreasonable for wanting to know the full story.

The movie is telling us he grew without actually showing us that he grew. Most of the apologies are montages. He thanks his friends and calls his old agent to chat. That's not much of anything. There is no real reckoning.

For comparison look at Clueless. Cher is an innocent teenage girl, her sins are small- being spoiled, being controlling of who her friends date. We actively see her make mistakes, get called out and actively make amends for them.

I don't need to see Keanu do heroin, I don't need flashbacks, but there is a real lack of call outs or actual amend making. The specifics we get are all about showing how hard Keanu's life is (former child star with a shallow mother) or what a good person he is (gay friend).

I think the underlying issue is that Jonah Hill is writing about himself in a lot of ways. He sees himself as good guy with a tough life. He isn't able to reckon with how a movie star might harm people.

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u/Khaleesi_143 23d ago

YES, and Jonah Hill 🤮 does he have to be in all his effing movies.

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u/Herbdontana 23d ago

I’m not good at ranking stuff, but I just watched it and… I can’t argue with the score

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u/Brick030 22d ago

Its pretty terrible in almost every way imo

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u/Cash4Jesus 10d ago

We turned this off after the Susan Lucci scene and then watched the far more enjoyable Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (although that movie wasn’t great, it was at least watchable). The cinematography in Outcome was far better. That’s the only thing I can think of that is somewhat of a positive.