Directed by:
George A. RomeroScreenplay:
George A. RomeroCinematography:
Adam SwicaComposer:
Donald RubinsteinCast:
Jason Flemyng, Peter Stormare, Leslie Hope, Tom Atkins, Jonathan Higgins, Boyd Banks, Neil Crone, Peter Mensah, Ari Cohen, Michale Graves, Nina Garbiras (more)Plots(1)
All his life Henry has been a nice guy. The man who lives to turn the other cheek. But things are about to change. Betrayed by an unfaithful wife, belittled by an overbearing boss and cheated out of a fortune by his best friend, Henry has been pushed to the edge of sanity. Stripped of everything including his identity, Henry wakes into a nightmare world where he has been left witout a face. In a bloody rampage of revenge, Henry sets out to destroy those who have betrayed him. Written and directed by horror legend George Romero, comes Bruiser...the blood curdling tale of how far a normal man would go to regain what others have taken. (official distributor synopsis)
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A young man is down on his luck. His boss fucks with him at work, his wife at home, and even his closest friend thinks he's a moron and steals his money. And so, one day, a mask suddenly appears on his face, he sees through all the badness and gets a taste for revenge. Romero's attempt at a kind of psychological thriller, or whatever it was supposed to be, failed. From the second half on, he gets boring, tries to be psychological, but fails. Anyone expecting some carnage, or god forbid zombies, will be disappointed. Only Peter Stormare as an eccentric womanizer, with a "steroid champion between his legs", is good, that role was tailor made for him.
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Bruiser is no masterpiece of a film, but I still can't help but enjoy it. Jason Flemyng was excellent here (as always), Peter Stormare proved again that he was born for the role of a freak. The result was a sort of a B-movie version of Falling Down. 3*+
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Bruiser seems to generally not be well-received, but to me, George A. Romero showed through it that he can direct other films that won't just be about zombies that have overrun the land. I had a good time with the film and was curious to see how each character would end up. Not all deaths are overly inventive, but that's because Henry is somewhat finding himself. The last, almost bonus scene, put a smile on my face.
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