Bruiser is an ok Thriller, not too bad has some funny moments & some weird moments!!! It's abit like American Psycho or reminded me of that film anyway as the main guy a bored frustrated business man fantasies about killing people that piss him off or anger him & that is all ok & fun but what really stands out here is the end part the 3rd act at the big fancy dress Party that is all Awesome & fun, but TOM ATKINS is why i brought this film on dvd that is why i tracked it down lol as always TOM ATKINS the icon of cult movies & Horror is perfectly cast as a rugged tough cop (he was born to play that part lol) & once again like he always does tom steals the show & the film us so much BETTER just by having his presence in it other wise the movie would be boring!!! But Atkins lifts it up & makes it a good Thriller instead of dull & boring so thank you again TOM ATKINS u tha man

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.

Peter Stormare is certainly more cleaned up than he was in Fargo, but as Milo, the racist, obnoxious, misogynistic boss of Bruiser magazine, he is off the charts. I imagine he will be on the top of Henry's (Jason Flemyng - Layer Cake, Transporter 2) list when things change. Especially when he sees his wife (the smoking hot Nina Garbiras) jerking him off. Maybe she will be first.Henry wakes the next day without a face. It isn't like he is not recognized, but he has a whole new personality. No longer a carpet, he is taking positive action against those who wronged him: his lousy boss, his cheating wife, and a friend who is ripping him off.What will happen when he is through? Will he be a changed man? Will the mask disappear? George A. Romero still gives us a good story. It may not be zombies, but it is food for thought. What would we do if we woke tomorrow with a new personality?

There is about 20 minutes of interesting movie here, in the opening preamble and in the grand guignol of the masquerade party. In between, this is poor.I love Romero films, for, amongst other things, their mixture of grotesque violence and gallows humour. With Bruiser, apart from the delicious viciousness of the set-up of our faceless non-hero, this provided some peculiar and unsatisfactory combination of Zorro and Death Wish, without atmosphere, coherence or even any real energy. Did the whole budget get blown on the set for the masquerade? I wanted to like it, was expecting to at least enjoy it in a time-passing way, and was only bored and frustrated by it.