Bronson

Une performance sensationnelle d'acteur de la part de Tom Hardy. Il est incroyable de voir qu'il ne surjoue pas même une seconde malgré l'image excentrique d'un personnage aussi dérangé. Il le dépeint dans des dizaines d'états d'esprit avec des réactions totalement imprévisibles. Dommage que Refn n'ait pas maintenu progressivement et précisément l'analyse psychologique de son personnage tout au long du film (l'interaction avec de nouveaux personnages dans de nouveaux environnements) et que sa vision artistique se soit diluée dans une abstraction répétitive. Avec sa stylisation unique, Bronson aurait pu être le successeur de L'Orange mécanique de Kubrick. (10/08/2022)

Very well made and stylish but pointless. I don’t require films always “give me something”, but spending an hour and a half watching how a mass of raging meat goes from jail to jail without doing anything interesting is not for me, really. Hardy’s transformation is impressive, but where there’s nothing… (04/09/2011)

This portrait of a perfectly brainwashed person can hardly be considered through traditional cinematic standards. On the one hand, we have the brilliant Tom Hardy, who fully defines the term "one-man show" and on the other, the director's annoying style of pseudo-intellectual storytelling. I’d have to see it again to properly asses it, but I don't want to. I liked it and I enjoyed it, but somewhere in the corner of my brain, it was pissing me off. I have to let it sink in. In any case, I haven't seen anything more contradictory since Kelly’s Southland Tales (though that analogy will seem a bit off to many). Edit: In the end, it’s an average film. Given what I said above, that’s a solid compromise. (05/08/2009)

Bronson represents an alternative trip from the mainstream into the waters of productions mainly intended for a minority festival audience. It is strongly stylized, practically plotless, but decently entertaining and honestly acted, with an interesting Tom Hardy in the main role, who thoroughly enjoyed himself in the role of a violent thug. I wouldn't want to live in the same city as Peterson alias Bronson, let alone the idea of ​​sharing an apartment in the same tenement house, but on the movie screen, his furious outbursts and manic ideas can bring a smile to the viewer's face. However, I wouldn't dare recommend Bronson to anyone, as it may just be too... maybe not controversial, but rather a crazy, eccentric, and difficult-to-classify original idea. There is a sense of inspiration from Monty Python's sense of mystification and absurdity, and it is also influenced by the tradition of British social comedy. It is a film that certainly won't make any impact on film history, but it has all the prerequisites to diversify mainstream film productions. Overall impression: 60%. (26/07/2012)

Bleh. A rebooted and even spasmodically independent biopic that somehow misses the point. At least I learned how to shop in a jewelry store. (27/07/2009)

Avait-on besoin de faire un film sur un tel taré ? Je pense que non, mais au moins, on a droit à une prestation remarquable de la part de l’acteur principal ainsi qu’à une chouette BO – plus précisément les Pet Shop Boys et la scène de danse à l’hôpital psychiatrique. Cette scène, c’est de loin de meilleur moment du film. (03/04/2010)