The life of an ordinary ambitious teenager boy, who has many dreams of being an important person and affects on the world, so he tries to rob a post office, has been changed completely, as he has been arrested and sentenced to 7 years at prison, where he impersonates another personality of his favorite celebrity, Bronson.
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.
November 24, 2009
Itâ(TM)s a meditation on the art of rage -- an action painting passing itself off as an action movie.
November 05, 2009
"Nuffin' wonky about my upbringing," Bronson says, early on. Nothing wonky about Hardy's performance, either.
January 22, 2010
This is psychotic behavior as performance art, and Hardy makes it irresistible.
October 30, 2009
A pointless exercise in morbidity.
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.
March 05, 2014
The movie's giddy brio can leave you punch-drunk, and oddly unsatisfied.
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.
December 17, 2010
full review at Movies for the Masses
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.
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.
