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Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2020. Simply log on to connect now. A young man who was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending three decades in solitary confinement.

:). This movie glorifies it anyway. Set in Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a trio of bootlegging brothers are threatened by a new special deputy and other authorities angling for a cut of their profits. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. WARNING: You are about to enter a restricted computing environment. Unfortunately, it wasn't the copy we expected. Tom Hardy buffed up for the role, and his insight into the man is as good as it gets. I must say I was not disappointed! It omits other facets of his life including the Muslim woman he married in jail, his conversion to Islam, and the subsequent renouncement of the awards he won for his art and poetry.Enduring the egotistical ramblings of a psychopath may not sound like a particularly entertaining prospect, but "Bronson" delivers on all fronts. Was this review helpful to you? What can I say? 5 stars for the portrayal of BRONSON by lead actor tom hardy, the content is admittedly unnerving...a man goes into prison a lightweight petty thief and over time, is transformed by the mental health and prison systems into a certifiable, violent, insane being stripped of reason and its humanity. The system seemed to simply give him what he wanted. Expand Map. Sign-in with your Bronson username and Password.

Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. It's hard to believe that Tom Hardy and Michael Peterson - alias Charles Bronson - became good friends. Cloudflare Ray ID: 5e66ab773fb7735f Michael Pederson aka "Charlie Bronson" is portrayed with uncanny brilliance by Tom Hardy, in a film that is part surrealism, part historical fiction and part character-study. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done. Title: When he smirks capriciously, there's nothing behind his eyes. Clearly this is an actor unafraid of what the camera will capture. This FAQ is empty. A young man who was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending three decades in solitary confinement. Bronson When he smirks capriciously, there's nothing behind his eyes. He has now spent more than three decades in jail, with the majority of those years in solitary confinement, and has become a tabloid sensation as the "most violent prisoner in Britain." Use the barcode number on your library card to borrow ebooks and audiobooks. Why I am not entitely satisfied : total lack of subtitles - as someone with (so far) only a slight hearing impairment, it is very tiring to try to follow dialogue especially when slang, dialect or poor articulation is present.

With Tom Hardy, Kelly Adams, Luing Andrews, Katy Barker. The only sympathy revealed is that here's a man who for one reason or the other appears to refuse to redeem himself or do better and doesn't at least from the film perspective, seem to be because the system abused him or failed him. Bronson's first and only instinct is to fight, to capture, and to win. The director is Nicolas Winding Refn, most famous for the movie "Drive" (2011), and his "Pusher" trilogy of films about Copenhagen's violent, multi-ethnic underworld.

Peterson as Hardy portrays him has next to no redeeming features; Britain's most famous prisoner is a psychopath through and through, a man whose ostensible charisma is simply a ploy to justify his irrepressible desire to inflict violence on others. The system you are using provides access to confidential Bronson Healthcare Group data and is intended for authorized users only.

And perhaps you will, but you will also be glad that he is still behind bars.

Swiftly apprehended and originally sentenced to seven years in jail, Peterson has subsequently been behind bars for 34 years, 30 of which have been spent in solitary confinement. Sign in. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn.

Milo tries to be a family man and run his criminal organization, but a wrong drug shipment endangers everything. The film is impressively structured and edited, shot in dark tones--illustrating his theme that Bronson is "an artist looking for a canvas," whose search is frequently violent, crazy, and erratic. One thing is for certain: Bronson invites you to admire its protagonist as a pure, muscular embodiment of anarchy. View production, box office, & company info. Identical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray terrorize London during the 1960s. (2008). Refn himself is something of a rebel, who brings a sharp, surreal, foreign eye to the film. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Unfortunately, the film never gets under the skin of Bronson and his motivations. NOT WHAT WE EXPECTED. Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Rated R for violent and disturbing content, graphic nudity, sexuality and language, The Unbearable Mumbleness of Tom Hardy (Column), Tom Hardy Returns to CBeebies for More Bedtime Stories, and Moms Can't Get Enough, Nicolas Winding Refn Movies by IMDb User Ratings, Favorite Movie Shot in Chronological Order, 2000s Exploding Domestic Box Office Movie Duds, Best Movie Portrayal of Real-life Mob/Gangster. Also, I purchased the HD copy, but this was NOT HD, it was rather poor quality, grainy and pixelated.

Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. Tom Hardy took this to a deep place mentally, as a thespian physically and transcended mere screen acting. He never makes it to phase two of planning. I liked at times it felt like a stage play and would in reality, make great theater and is almost like the movie is just filming a theatrical performance with all of the great lighting trimmings. Forced for some time to be a fighting slave, a pagan warrior escapes his captors with a boy and joins a group of Crusaders on their quest to the Holy Land. In fact I think it might make an even better play but that's a compliment to the filmmaker and actors really.

There's a problem loading this menu right now. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 8, 2019, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 17, 2012. Driving Directions. In 1974, a hot-headed 19 year old named Michael Peterson decided he wanted to make a name for himself and so, with a homemade sawn-off shotgun and a head full of dreams he attempted to rob a post office. Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2020. Tonny is released from prison - again. Looking for something to watch? Click here to learn more about borrowing our ebooks and audiobooks.