Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 9
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 3
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Release Date: Dec 31, 2001 Wide
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Horror-meister George Romero directs this thriller about a 99-pound weakling who strikes back at everyone who has wronged him in the past. Henry Creedlow (Jason Flemyng) works at a fashion mag called Bruiser for the short-fused, dictatorial Miles Styles (Peter Stormare). Henry spends much of his day fantasizing about killing himself and killing others, particularly his nagging wife Janine (Nina Garbiras). After learning that Miles is shagging his wife and that his stockbroker best friend
R, 1 hr. 36 min.
Dec 31, 2001 Wide
Oct 9, 2001
LionsGate Entertainment
All Critics (10) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (3) | DVD (7)
It's fascinating in an overwrought kind of way, and even though it was not filmed in Pittsburgh, it's still filled with all of Romero's usual touches.
Never scary or suspenseful, and only succeeds at being sleazy and unpleasant. It's easy to see why this stinker never got a theatrical release.
Dark, ugly, violent, and bleak. Fun times for all!
a strange hybrid of 'Phantom of the Opera' and Sam Raimi's 'Dark Man'
Bruiser is clearly meant to operate as both a social satire and horror flick, but it's effective in neither realm.
The humor is vacuous and the story lacks subtlety.
A fairy tale worth telling for Romero who, even in his minor failures, exposes by example the dearth of significance and heart in the majority of today's lifeless knock-offs.
Bruiser may be a lightweight in the Romero canon, but he's still able to deliver the goods.
Bruiser is very adept at getting its point across.
George Romero has been responsible for some of the greatest horror films of all time (Night of the Living Dead among others), and some that are more misunderstood (Season of the Witch, Monkey shines). "Bruiser", clearly falls in the latter category, which is not to say its a bad movie, but that the "theme" of the film
May 15, 2008Super Reviewer
George A. Romero makes good movies, right? Zombie movies anyway, this one sucked. The only cool part was how freaky his mask looked, and that he imagined holding a womans head down on a train track for cutting in front of him. Otherwise it made no sense, except that it was some sort of metaphor for his face becoming
March 30, 2008Super Reviewer
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