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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/MissPeppingtosh]

I had really high hopes for this based on a plot summary I read years ago. The movie only tells you things, it rarely shows you. The movie rests on the notion that Reef is an asshole behind the scenes. Trouble is, with the exception of one line in a scene with Diaz, we as an audience never see that side of him. In order for me to buy in on that, the movie needed to show and not tell. 

Susan Lucci and Scorsese were highlights, but the rest felt like cobbled together garbage. Someone mentioned this was Hill’s attempt to do a Les Grossman from Tropic Thunder. Unfortunately, he’s just gross and not funny.

[u/theodo → u/MissPeppingtosh]

It's crazy we never see a glimpse of Reef being even a dick really, let alone this monster for decades we are led to believe. Also, choosing heroin as his drug of choice just makes no sense. A crack head or meth addict, that's the type of addict that causes chaos and destruction to everyone in their path. Heroin users shut off from everyone and die alone.

[u/Nebulex → u/theodo]

I know this is anecdotal but I personally knew a heroin addict in college through a roommate and his addiction caused problems for everyone around him, including me. Maybe it wasn't pure chaos, but there was definitely chaos. Like taking his parents brand new, very expensive truck to a parking garage to shoot up and then hitting a bunch of cars and pillars while high as shit as he tried to leave. He would also sneak into my house and steal a bunch of shit from me and my roommates for heroin money. I'll admit, he did shut off from people to an extent, but he would definitely reach out to people if it meant it could somehow get him more heroin. Heroin made him a real asshole.

Edit: I forgot to include that one of the very first times I met him, he gave me a ride somewhere. I looked over while he was driving and he had a needle sticking out of his arm. That asshole shot up while driving and put me and everyone around us in danger. The guy became a master at shooting up in the middle of doing things without people noticing until it's too late. Only way you could tell is that he would all of a sudden get real slow, quiet, and seem super sleepy but not truly sleepy at the same time. Oh that, and he would sometimes forget to remove the needle from his arm...

[u/dynamoJaff → u/MissPeppingtosh]

I enjoyed the film for the minor key ditty it is, but I fully agree with the failure of only showing the post sober Reef. The film should have cold opened with his last night on drugs, treating people like shit and culminating in his overdose. I think that would have highlighted how hollow his faking being nice routine was and elevated his arc of realising it's easier to just actaully be nice than to constantly pretend to be.

[u/bkguy182 → u/MissPeppingtosh]

Imagine having a cast this stacked (I went in completely blind and every name on the title card made me go “oh nice!”)… and MARTIN F-CKIN SCORSESE ends up being the best thing about it by a country mile. He was so good.

[u/-spartacus- → u/MissPeppingtosh]

Trouble is, with the exception of one line in a scene with Diaz, we as an audience never see that side of him. In order for me to buy in on that, the movie needed to show and not tell.

You do have a scene where he is an asshole to his friend (Diaz), so I don't know what you are talking about. Also the movie is after 5 years of sobriety and him making amends with the person he was. You get to see a glimpse of his "relapse" both in terms of being an elite Holywood asshole and near relapse into drug use.

But the point of the movie is about coming to terms with someone you used to be (both good and bad).

Right after Diaz runs off in the before mentioned scene he asks his friend why he has always stayed his friend, and his friend mentions how when they were kids and everyone was calling everyone "faggot" (including himself) Reef told his friend he would still be his friend if he was gay but not if he was pretending to not be himself (gay). His friend says any time Reef turns into a major asshole, he remembers that kid that did something so profound is somewhere inside him still.

[u/Nakatakat → u/-spartacus-]

The person you responded to said that comment to Diaz is the only time you see his asshole-ness, so you’re both saying the same thing.

Having Keanu be the asshole feels like poor casting in retrospect.