Bruiser Bruiser

Bruiser is the story of a man who has always tried to fit in. He keeps his mouth shut, follows the rules, and does what he's supposed to do. But one morning, he wakes up to find his face is gone. All the years of acquiescence have cost him the one thing he can't replace: his identity. Now he's a blank, outside as well as in, an anonymous, featureless phantom. Bent on exacting revenge, he explodes. He isn't going to follow the rules anymore.

Jason Flemyng Peter Stormare Leslie Hope Nina Garbiras Andrew Tarbet Tom Atkins Jonathan Higgins Jeff Monahan Marie Cruz Tamsin Kelsey Christine Forrest The Misfits

horror thriller

99 mins   More details at IMDb / TMDb

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  • Aaron King

    Review by Aaron King ★★★

    This film has done interesting ideas about society and your place in it but the last act kind if falls apart and the last two minutes almost made me drop it another star because it makes it seem really terrible and cheesy. For a scary film, it lacks scares just maybe some suspense. More about identity and what that is to people.

  • Tyler Baptist

    Review by Tyler Baptist ★½

    Henry Creedlow is having a bad day. His wife is cheating on him with his boss, his best friend is stealing money from his investments, his maid is stealing from his new home, and finally he wakes up and appears to have physically lost his identity! So in a murderous rage he seeks out revenge on all those who have wronged him! It's no more Mr. Passive Shrug It Off Nice Guy!

    Bruiser, the first Romero film to be shot in Ontario where he would shoot the rest of his future films and move to, is a mess. Romero attempts to spin a plot involving a faceless yuppie, played without gusto by Jason Flemyng, who can't stand up for himself.…

  • Steve Stark

    Review by Steve Stark ★★½

    Messy, uneven, but oddly enjoyable Psychological thriller/satire from George A Romero that takes jabs at materialism, greed and excessive lifestyles. A pale companion to American Psycho (literally) with a sympathetic Jason Flemyng, OTT Peter Stormare and Tom Atkins playing yet another Detective. It also features the Misfits.

  • Austin Wolf-Sothern

    Review by Austin Wolf-Sothern ★½

    An unassuming guy (Jason Flemyng) works at a fashion magazine called Bruiser (because nothing says high fashion like “a person who is tough and aggressive and enjoys a fight or argument”). He has a horrendous boss (a ludicrously over-the-top, but not-quite-enjoyable Peter Stormare) and a cheating wife, and wakes up one morning with a plain white mask plastered on his face. With this facial blank slate, he decides to wipe the slate clean on his life, by standing up for himself and killing those who have wronged him. The mask has some moderate creep value, at least before he starts painting it with the ugliest colors imaginable, but it’s not much to hang a movie on. It's a fine concept, but it doesn’t go anywhere interesting. And even with Tom Atkins as a detective, there wasn’t a single thing in the entire movie I felt like I really liked. It was just bad.

  • Steve Nixon

    Review by Steve Nixon ★★★

    A real oddity in Romero's catalogue, one of the guys out of Lock, Stock plays the invisible man battling against a coked up, oversexed Peter Stormare. it also has another great Tom Atkins cop role and the most worrying use of the A-Ha classic 'Take On Me'.

  • Dan Auty

    Review by Dan Auty ★★★ 3

    A real oddity from George Romero. Part revenge horror, part social satire, it doesn't all work and runs out of steam after an hour, but it's a fascinating film with a clever script and an enjoyably scene-chewing performance from Peter Stormare. It's also a million miles better that Diary or Survival Of The Dead.