Bronson
Spending about 34 years at prison changes the entire life of Michael Peterson, an ordinary ambitious teenager boy, who wants to affect on people and be an important one, so he tries to rob a post office, the thing that brings terrible for him, as he has been arrested and sentenced to 7 years at first, as he impersonates the personality of Bronson, his best celebrity.
25 May 1951, University City, Missouri, USA
31 January 1968, Watford, England, UK
June 22, 2013
An overstylized mess, with a brave but pointless performance from Tom Hardy as a lifelong prisoner who just wants to destroy everything around him, most of all himself.
September 08, 2011
...an anthropological study in human viciousness, like a nature film done by Stanley Kubrick.
December 17, 2010
full review at Movies for the Masses
September 26, 2014
...the film can barely contain Tom Hardy's performance. It's a Method turn so bloodily immersive it's hard to imagine the actor getting his head straight afterwards.
November 05, 2009
"Nuffin' wonky about my upbringing," Bronson says, early on. Nothing wonky about Hardy's performance, either.
September 03, 2015
Hardy does an admirable job of making this monster human, which he achieves with surprising wit and a visceral, attention-grabbing passion.
October 30, 2009
A pointless exercise in morbidity.
January 21, 2010
Part literate black comedy, part surrealistic character study, part horror movie, Bronson is a sophisticated confection, rich and dark, sprinkled with bitter little jokes.
March 05, 2014
The movie's giddy brio can leave you punch-drunk, and oddly unsatisfied.
November 24, 2009
Itâ(TM)s a meditation on the art of rage -- an action painting passing itself off as an action movie.
October 30, 2009
Bronson is one of those "based on a true story" dramatizations where the theatrically staged drama only gets in the way of the more interesting truth.
January 22, 2010
This is psychotic behavior as performance art, and Hardy makes it irresistible.
