Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Michael Ledo Bruiser is the name of the magazine that reserved Henry (Jason Flemyng) is employed. He imagines himself choking and killing people who push him around. At a company party he sees his wife Nina Garbiras) pleasing his crude boss (Peter Stormare) with her hand. They are having an affair. His dog hates him. His maid steals from him and his friend is robbing him blind. Henry describes himself as "house broke." Leslie Hope plays the understanding fellow co-worker and sometimes wife of Stormare who is just as disgusted with him as is Henry. She supplies him with the mask.One miraculous day Henry wakes up with that same plain white mask as a face (see DVD cover). He now has the ability to act out his destructive fantasies...and he does.The movie is an "artsy" dark comedy with a horror/slasher background. George C. Romero likes his symbols and metaphors to be subtle, like zombies walking aimlessly around a mall. This movie is not for everyone as it creates its own genre. It is not really a slasher, although before get killed. It doesn't generate real horror. It is not a LOL comedy, but it has humorous moments.F-bomb, sex, nudity (Nina Garbiras, Marie V. Cruz)

robfather_87 Synopsis: It is about a guy who works in a job with a crappy boss who is not good to anyone, a wife that cheats on him and a good friend that steals money from him. He start off imagining he kills people that treats him bad. You really feel this guy has some very big anger building up inside. Actually he feels that everybody around him treats him bad. He wakes up one day after a party, finding out the white mask he created on the party is stuck to his face. And the anger breaks loose. Acting: Jason Flemyng did the best performance in this movie by far the way he change from miserable to anger is great. He have done a lot of movies in his career. To name a few like Lock, stock and two smoking barrels (1998), Snatch (2000), Transporter 2 (2005), Stardust (2007). Peter Stormare the well known Swedish actor. Also did a pretty good job in this movie as the very bad boss. Just did not care about anything. To name some of his big list of movies like Fargo (1996), The lost world: Jurassic park (1997), Hamilton (1998), Prison break the TV series (2005). He have also been voicing the mercenaries games. Leslie Hope did nothing big but a very decent job in this movie. She have also done her part in movies but nothing very big, maybe mostly known for her role in the TV series '24'. Nina Garbiras did nothing very special performance in this movie. Have done some roles outside of this one, mostly in TV series like Leap Years (2001), Boomtown (2002). Cinematography: Most of the filming was shot in Toronto and Ontario, Canada. Was a good location to film this movie nothing to point out as bad about it. The setting was OK. Nothing big in the camera work but Romero is not known much for his camera work. Make-up: In this category I usually point out costumes and makeup but in these kinds of movies it is better to just talk about makeup. The main thing here is the mask it is very well done actually. But now we talk about man behind the zombie genre the master of masks and make-up. So the mask here is awesome and it is mostly it to mention.Music/Sound: The music here is great and Romero actually did make a video earlier in his career for the band who play in this film. So they made 2 original songs for him and played them in the party scene in this movie. That is pretty awesome. The sound mixing is forgettable but it fits in with the scenes pretty well. And makes a good tension for the movie. Summary: We can start off saying this is George A. Romero's better works since the awesome zombie flicks he made. Like Night of the living dead (1968), Dawn of the dead (1978), Day of the dead (1985). I would not call this a major horror movie though. It is tipping more over to the thriller genre with horror elements in it. It is only one thing that made the rating from me this low and that is the way the movie progresses later on. I would have liked it to go in the same direction as it started off because that was really amazing. If I should point out some similar movies if you liked this one the first movie that comes to my mind is Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise, it is very similar actually. If you are a Romero fan you should absolutely try this one out. If you like a good thriller I don't really know if I would recommend it to all but it is pretty good, and worth a watch.

efrainerodriguez-162-774655 I caught George Romero's Bruiser on Fearnet (or Chiller - I loose track!). Having actually seen it uncut over 10 years ago, I was reminded of just how much I enjoyed this flick, and Romero's artistry.Romero horror has been different, and someone born after 1990 would probably have a pretty hard time getting it, much less appreciate it, as it's like no other. George always injects social commentaries, or satire, or both into his horror that make it all too enjoyable (like the Hare Krishna zombie in Dawn of the Dead, or even Dennis Hopper's "George W. Bush" like character in Land of the Dead). Furthermore - it's always going to be either a gore fest, or a violence fest, or even better - both! The colors and pastel hues of everything in Dawn of the Dead (even the blood) was deliberate, not bad special effects. Romero's zombies have always been slow and menacing - but try selling that to a post Millennium crowd, where all the zombies are coked up, or on speed, and in one movie, they could even walk on ceilings and jump from buildings... why bother trying to survive that...Anyway - onto the movie. Bruiser stars Jason Flemyng, as a mild mannered man that gets constantly used, abused, humiliated, by most folks around him. Even his wife is cheating on him, and he knows it and even seems to accept it. One day, he wakes up and realizes his face is gone, replaced with a featureless mask looking one. Realizing that now, on top of everything, he's loss his identify, he decides to make everyone who has wronged him pay. The result is extremely violent payback, and as he kills all who have done wrong by him, he begins to get pieces of his face back. I loved Bruiser. The symbolism of him taking back what all those horrible people took from him is great, and I even found gratification in it. Let's face it - we've all been stomped on by jerks at one point or another - so we all know one or a few people who really should be bruised! It's also different because from society's point of view, he should be the bad guy, after all, he's murdering people. But you find yourself cheering for the bad guy, and you fear he will get caught. You want him to find himself, but also have to wonder, when and if he does, what then? So the movie makes you think on many different levels and perceptions - typical Romero.To add to that - how awesome if a movie with music by The Misfits? Nowhere near as awesome as a movie that has The Misfits performing in it! This is a must see for Romero fans, and anyone not born in the last 20 years!

thebogofeternalstench I thought Bruiser was going to be about a normal guy who loses the plot and goes mental with revenge.But instead we have terrible acting from Jason Felmyng. A lot of it reminded me of a theatrical.As others have said, it lacks punch, direction and interest.It is very badly acted, and reminded me a C-movie you would see early into the hours of the morning had you been unable to sleep that night.The idea for the mask was just ridiculous. And it looked ridiculous. The way the guy planned his murders was just pathetic. A guy who was intent on a murder rampage would just do it all in one day or night, but instead our main character gives a little speech before each murder.What a bore this movie was. Do not waste your time on it.