Amazon.com Customer Reviews
 Rated 4 out of 5
if looks could kill......
to sum it up..henry is a business man that has gotten no where. his boss is having an affair with his wife,and his best friend is stealing thousands from him.
he wakes up one day, to find a blank face. he then proceeds to get revenge on those who have done him wrong. the final murder was a little weak, but still a good movie..the misfits did a really good job in the club scene. while the ’’fits perform scream, fiend without a face, and bruiser, henry takes a laser and kills his boss who is suspended from the ceiling as if part of the show.
also i liked the video for SCREAM. Romero did a great job directing it.- Rated 4 out of 5
Bruiser
George A. Romero’’s Bruiser is really a great combination of horror and comentary of humanity. Yes you do see scenes of horror, a woman’’s head being crushed by a train, a woman being thrown out a window of a building with an extension cord wrapped securly around here neck, yes you do see things of this nature, but the main focus of the film seems to revolve around the life of an everyday guy who is walked on everyday of his life by his wife,boss (the 2 are sleeping together), his best friend cheating him out of money that belong to him, but one day he wakes up and his face is replaced with a white mask, he then starts to sink into insanity, carrying his twisted revege on all those who have wronged him. Romero shows this cruel and hard world that is sometimes true, but just as he shows this Romero also shows that even in the most unexpected places youn can find a real friend, someone that can give you hope when you need it most. Bruiser is not a striaght out horror film, it’’s more of a social commentary just as he had done earlier in his classic dead films, Romero this time shows maybe humanity is not all that bad.  Rated 1 out of 5
A tragic, tragic disappointment
Perhaps what makes this movie so bad is the fact that it could easily have been so good. With legendary horror director George Romero, and a cameo appearance from the greatest band of all time, the Misfits, "Bruiser" seemed like a sure shot. The surreal, Kafka-esque story that formed its basis was solid, and for the most part, the acting was up to snuff. So where does this movie fail? The script. It starts out stunningly well, and continues to go strong right up to the point where Henry murders his light-fingered maid. Unfortunately, from that point on, it quickly disintigrates into greater and greater absurdity, bottoming out with a climax so ridiculous that it left me shaking my head. The film could have been a harrowing study of the terrible price of revenge on man’’s soul. Instead, the protagonist comes off as a twisted role-model for the power and benefits of self-assertion. Apparently, the most efficient way to take charge of your life is to strangle your wife to death with an extension cord. Even through the muck and mire of this film, Romero still manages to serve up some very poignant imagery, and the Misfits video on the DVD edition is great, but I would counsil you to stay away from this movie. Or if you absolutely must see it, rent it first and check it out before spending your hard-earned money.
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