Saw this the other night! Bloody hell, best film I've seen in quite a while! Tom Hardy is at his very best as the lead, Charles Bronson. As I'm still a white middle class young man, the film obviously delivers on the prurient shock value front. Yes we may sit and stroke our chins with academic pomposity at films like A Clockwork Orange but I think a lot of us also watched that film to see a bit of good old fashioned screen contained violence. This film does exactly that. If Jackie Chan is one end of the spectrum this film is the other; simple fight choreography, maximum sadism. Anyway before you start to think I'm a Neo Nazi in the making let me mention what's important. The cinematography combined with the clever screenplay is absolute magic. The tale is told with a bit of first person narration (Bronson's) and is interspersed with numerous surreal shots ranging from Bronson covered in black paint fighting prison guards whilst naked, to Bronson addressing a theatre to tell his tale dressed as a mime in a tuxedo. The surrealism, ultra violence and first person narrative make for a number of Clockwork Orange parallels but other than than that I don't think this is in the same ball park. Doesn't really have much of of profound message or anything. Just a bloody good laugh!
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