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Beatty's rude and relevant comedy is a one-joke movie, but the joke is pretty good. It's a courageous film that is always sharp even though it loses narrative focus. Beatty's hilarious raps are so inspired they deserve repeated viewings. As usual, Beatty surrounds himself with a great crew, Ennio Morricone's music and Vittorio Storaro's cinematography being especially noteworthy. Beatty and Storaro even have the audacity to imitate two very famous photographs in the film's final seconds. The script by Beatty and Jeremy Pikser won the L.A. Film Critics award and was nominated for an Oscar. --Doug Thomas
| ACTORS: | Warren Beatty, Halle Berry |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Warren Beatty |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 15 May, 1998 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Twentieth Century Fox |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 086162103988 |
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Customer Reviews of Bulworth
The bravest American film in several years Warren Beatty hits it out of the park with "Bulworth," a film combining satire, drama and relevant political comment. We should have four or five films a year like this, like in the 70s with "Dog Day Afternoon," "All the President's Men," "Network." Instead, Beatty seems to be the only mainstream filmmaker who cares to comment on the quality of American life. The script is daring and shockingly funny. Beatty's raps are a real risk for a star of his stature--but damned if he doesn't pull them off. I understand that few people in the African American community saw this film when it was released. They should rent or buy it now: Beatty's message will knock their socks off. Actor, Director, Writer, Producer...and now he may run for President! Hey, we've done much worse in the past. Meanwhile, THIS MOVIE RULES!
Nervous breakdown?
Political satires from "Wag the Dog" and"Primary Colors" to "Canadian Bacon" and"Dave" work because they do much to expose the hypocrasy of American politics. These movies make a mockery of the office of the President and we laugh and sometimes cringe when it bites too hard.quot;Bulworth" shoots for this type of humor.
So why not tell the ugly truth about everything while there's still time? Bulworth reveals insider secrets about how money and politics roll around in bed together in a capitalist society - how democracy, and equality are not the true goals of today's politicians. This is the strength of the movie.
But this is the weakness: Rather than stick to humor, "Bulworth" attempts suspense, action, drama, and romance at the same time. So, the viewer gets a convolution of "In the Line of Fire" and "Manchurian Candidate" along with "Menace to Society" and "The Bodyguard." It's too much and the movie becomes very bizarre and unfocused about midway.
It could have worked, but it didn't. The other movies that I named are much better. A note to Halle Berry: The role of ghetto-style, hoodrat has been worked to death with "Jungle Fever, Losing Isaiah, BAPS," and now "Bulworth." I realize it's hard to find positive roles to fill when Hollywood has a stereotypical view of Black women, but please try harder to represent. This was truly embarrassing to watch.
What were they thinking?
What were they thinking? Nevermind, it's actually pretty obvious.
Far from being the deft parody of modern civics that the producers obviously intended, this is an extremely silly movie that trivializes major problems, and frequently borders on being racist, classist, and anti-semitic.
One problem is that this was Warren Beatty's attempt at being "hip" and reaching out to a whole new generation. Well, I'm part of that generation and let me tell you that it just came out as being creepy and pathetic. Warren Beatty and Halley Berry? "Ew" on so many different levels. Warren Beatty being accepted as some sort of "brothah"? You've got to be kidding me. Warren Beatty rapping? Please, just kill me.
The other problem is that this movie attempts to address "problems" in a way that does nothing but rehash old stereotypes. This "inner city" was obviously dreamed up by an elderly woman from the midwest who has never actually met a black person, but has read books where she learned that some of them have hearts of gold and everyone else is a dangerous criminal intent on selling crack to five year olds.
There is a definate generation gap in who likes this movie and who does not. The young, socially aware people that I know think that this movie is paternalistic, insulting, and stupid: and that Warren Beatty should just deal with the fact that he is no longer Hollywood's #1 Heart-throb. My parents and their friends thought it was great and that Warren still has his old spark. Though even they admited that Warren and Halley was pretty "ew."
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