Other Titles • Bruiser (2000) • Devil's Mask (2000)
Synopses for Bruiser (2000)
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Meet the new face of terror.
All his life Henry has been a nice guy. The man who lives to turn the other cheek. But things are about to change. Betrayed by an unfaithful wife, belittled by an overbearing boss and cheated out of a fortune by his best friend. Henry has been pushed to the edge of sanity. Stripped of everything including his identity, Henry wakes into a nightmare world where he has been left without a face. In a bloody rampage of revenge, Henry sets out to destroy those who have betrayed him. Written and directed by horror legend George Romero, comes Bruiser… the blood curdling tale of how far a normal man would go to regain what others have taken.
(28 votes)
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After an eight-year hiatus, George Romero makes his long-awaited cinematic return with the visceral Bruiser, a savage and unsettling take on Kafka's The Metamorphosis as a Death Wish revenge fantasy. Jason Flemyng stars as an emotional doormat who, ground down by years of abuse by his boss (Peter Stormare) and humiliation by his wife, wakes up one morning to find his face missing. He's the ultimate anonymous man, and he's mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. Painting his masklike visage like a tribal warrior, he hunts down and kills his tormentors. Romero takes an odd pleasure in Flemyng's perverse self-help campaign, as if his savage explosion is some form of primitive personal growth. Lacking the irony and complexity of Romero's best work (Dawn of the Dead, Martin), Bruiser turns into little more than a sophisticated revenge picture with inspired moments of black humor. --Sean Axmaker
(29 votes)
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Bruiser is the story of a man who has always tried to fit in. He keeps his mouth shut, follows the rules, does what he's supposed to do. But one morning, he wakes up to find ... ...his face is gone. All the years of acquiescence have cost him the one thing he can't replace. His identity. Now he's a blank, outside as well as in, an anonymous, featureless phantom.
He explodes. Bent on revenge, he sets out to murder the people who have done him wrong. The wife who has been cheating on him for years. The best friend who has been robbing him blind. The boss who has treated him like dirt.
The police pursue him, but he defies identification. Only one person gets close to him, a woman he has admired from afar. He hides his secret from her, taking comfort in her presence, but he knows that, at least for now, they can't be together.
With each act of revenge, he forges a new identity for himself, reveling in the freedom that his anonymity bestows. But then...
...his face comes back. Leaner, stronger, tougher than before. It's the face of a man who has learned to stand up for himself, to follow his own rules.
(23 votes)
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