Well Deserved Praise

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Tom Hardy shows his brilliance in this film. He he totally engulfed by the character and acts it out in believable craziness that IS Charles Bronson. Superb film that I think only Tom Hardy could have mastered so well. I keep watch it over and over as it's so psychologically fascinating. Seeing Tom Hardy totally naked is a bonus. Lol.

I absolutely LOVE Tom Hardy, but this wasn't my fav role of his. To each their own I suppose, i do love his ability to commit to the roles he plays..i'm a die hard hardy fan & this wasn't bad, but also not so good. Kinda...meh?? Good job portraying Bronson though. Very interesting story.. Again, not my fav character hes played. I still love him as an actor. I really can't get enough of Tom lately. He's amazing in The Revenant, Dunkirk, The Drop, Mad Max & Taboo...to name a few. I love his attitude & looking forward to seeing many more of his movies & upcoming sequels to come.

For my first review on IMDb I thought it would be for a film I truly loved, instead it is for this film. This is a film for which I can only describe as a let down. After watching Nicolas Winding Refn's 'Taxi Driver'-esque neon infused drama 'Drive', I decided to watch this film, one which I had been told a lot about. Yes, Tom Hardy is brilliant in this. He is the glue that holds this poorly structured, weakly written film together. Four of my stars are for the main man here. Tom Hardy is outstanding in this role, he perfectly portrays the maniacal and incredibly unhinged Charles Bronson, a man who has infamously been incarcerated for life in prison, despite not officially murdering a single soul, as the film may make you think. His insane outbursts bring a certain perverse glee to the viewer, yet it is a glee that is severely stricken off when he calms down, and becomes a dull narrator for the parts of his life that no one cares about. The other star is for the music. Like in most Winding Refn films the music is amazing. A haunting ambient music strikes the audience,and inter cut with Hardy's surreal pantomine-type interactions with an (imaginary?) audience, the film will chill to the bone. However it is perhaps too loose on story, and too weakly structured for a casual viewing, and more one for those with a deeper interest in Britain's 'most expensive inmate'. 5/10

Bronson is a good movie with a reasonably well developed plot and a terrific cast. The highlight of the whole film has to be Tom Hardy, he was really walking on a tightrope with this role, as it all really relies on his performance. Being the only actual character in the whole film, he truly embodies the spirit and soul of Charles Bronson, it is clear he studied the man inside out, gaining a great understanding of how his mind works. I did find it to be far too art-house for my taste, I was hoping for a genuine biography film on Bronson's life, but there is actually very little here about him. People who do not know who this man is will learn nothing from watching this, the whole thing is basically set in his cell as we go inside his mind while he spends the remainder of his years in prison. I was hoping for a movie that would give us a much deeper understanding of Bronson as a man, but it really just messes around for an hour and a half. I was not going in to this expecting to see him dressed as a clown performing a show or rubbing himself in butter. It had a similar tone to A Clockwork Orange, feeling like the director was trying way too hard to be like Stanley Kubrick. A movie that tries a little too hard to be "out there" can be saved by a stellar performance, which we got in Hardy, who makes this watchable. Flawed but entertaining, Bronson is not what I expected, but I would still recommend it to anyone looking for a good crime film, just do not go out of your way to see it. Follows a man in solitary confinement as he copes with isolation. Best Performance: Tom Hardy