Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Numerootno A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Cristal The movie really just wants to entertain people.

MJB784 I just saw an extremely unpleasant "comedy": The Bronze. It's about this Bronze gymnast turned coach who is constantly angry and mean to everyone including her father and her father manipulates her to train this fan of her's to get the gold in a gymnastics competition. I have not seen a movie this unfunny and mean-spirited in a long time. I hated it.

Ian (Flash Review)Ever wonder what a former gymnast turns into after they finish their competitive life? This movie is sort of a character study of a successful gymnast who has broken out of a childhood that probably has been void of anything but gymnastics practices and following strict rules. She is extremely vulgar, lacks class, self-centered and has zero experience with boys. During this movie the former gymnast refuses to accept that her competitive days are over and she clings to the fact that she is the hero of her small hometown as she earned a gutsy bronze medal at the Olympics. She is lured into training a local star in hopes of amassing a large payday after the final competition. Will she try her best for the young star's success or will she sabotage this star to retain her local hero status? Overall, the movie doesn't need to be as vulgar as it is. The cursing is blunt and isn't even cleverly worked it as with The Big Lebowski for example. There are some odd and amusing moments but the movie is never laugh out loud funny. There is a very 'athletic' sex scene. The acting is solid and odd to see Bernadette in this role. Strange and profusely vulgar and a break from the typical mold.

julian kennedy The Bronze: An appealing comedy looking at a part of America only seen in Dan Bell's Dead Mall videos and during political campaigns about "Real America" . Gary Cole gives the standout performance as the put on dad sporting a Tom Skerritt mustache and the rest of the cast redeems themselves well. The film does bite off a bit more than it can chew trying to replicate two separate Olympic games and missing some easy targets involving NBC style coverage of same. Some might find the main character abrasive beyond redemption but the movie sells that redemption arc adequately. An overall fun film with some good laughs.

steeledanton I knew i wanted to see this film the minute i saw the previews. Like the title states, this is a pretty low budget film which is very similar to two Jon Heder films we've already seen, Napolean Dynamite and Blades of Glory. BUT this is very raunchy. I hadn't seen nor heard bad language like this since Hot tub Time Machine 2. But the film is fun to watch, and we see the dehabilitating effects drugs has on individuals.So as the story goes, there is a gymnast who had competed in the Olympics...not the 2002 Salt lake City ones, but 2004 if I remember correctly. This girl, the gymnast ends up winning a Bronze medal..hence what the title of this film is. Well, her coach dies and influences her in a letter to take the protégé that she had been training onto and into a compettitive level as good as she herself had once been.And thats where the film becomes even more interesting, not to mention that some of the stars are virtual unknowns...one of the top billings is an actor that stars in HBO's Silicon Valley.