Review: 'The Outsider' a lo-fi imitation of 'Taken'

Craig Fairbrass has an appealing sense of barely coiled rage in the L.A.-set 'The Outsider,' but it's mostly wasted in a thriller full of plot holes and dumb action cliches.Liam Neeson has proved of late how entertainingly potent the one-tough-middle-aged-SOB-against-impossible-odds movie can be. But there's not a lot to be — ahem — "Taken" by, however, in the lo-fi imitation thriller "The Outsider," which stars British slab Craig Fairbrass as Lex, a private security mercenary stationed in A...

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