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Steineded How sad is this?

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

chas437 I rate 'Bulworth' an A for degree of difficulty and ambition, C- for execution. Reading through the reviews here, this is clearly a polarizing film. I believe this is ultimately the legacy of the film, which is to say 'Bulworth' will never be remembered as a truly great film.Where this film falls short of its mark is in the limousine liberal rhetoric Senator Bulworth spouts, or raps embarrassingly. After the first few rhymes, which were sort of cute, it becomes cringeworthy. His rap is the worst I've ever heard, its so bad some might see it as mockery of legitimate hip-hop. We get the same political ideology of the liberal elites of the Democrat Party. Its like a broken record, its sounded good or decades, but when these Democrats get into positions of power in government, nothing changes. I would expect conservatives to dislike this, but I'd many progressives are do as well.I do give credit to Beatty for a courageous effort, but the film falls short of its high ambitions. The legacy of 'Bulworth' is really the legacy of the 1960s liberal/radical generation, a lot of talk and theater, no meaningful action or change. The socio-economic standing of poor, inner city African Americans has hardly changed in 50 years.

LeonLouisRicci An impossible feat to pull off, this film is remarkable in its audacious use of Rap rhythms and in your face farce that is a wonder to behold. There is literally nothing like this in moviedom. An over the top take on class war and politics that is amazingly fresh. You would hardly think that Warren Beatty as a depressed suicidal Senator having a nervous breakdown and suffering from sleep deprivation, taking on the ridiculous persona of an inner-city youth and parading it in front of the National News Media, could work as a piercing political satire. But it does, and it is a devastating delivery of an unbridled, out of the box, stream of consciousness conviction of a world gone mad.This is probably too pretentious and pandering for anyone but the far left to tolerate. However, even years later it is timeless, and you cannot deny that it is a mind-numbing movie that is entertaining and one must wonder, just how they made it happen. But here it is.

david-sarkies My friend didn't really like this movie all that much claiming that he couldn't really relate to the African-American subculture, but what I really think is that this movie is directed to minority people in general and is quite anti-corporate.The movie is focused around incumbent senator for California, Senator Bullsworth. The movie opens with him watching his campaign trailers and crying. It seems that the weight of his position has finally fallen on him. We learn that his wife really doesn't love him anymore and he has asked a hit-man to kill him. Suddenly he turns on the political system and begins to drag it through the mud. The first speech is at a Negro church and when he is asked questions, instead of giving a sugar coated non-committal answer, he tells them the truth. They have no money and thus do not matter. Soon he turns on the corporate sponsors, criticising their manipulation of the political system by throwing lots of money in the right direction.Thus senator Bullsworth throws away his lifestyle and delves into the Negro community. He attacks the corporations that run the nation and supports the under powered minorities. He even turns his teeth on the drug pushers, seeing them as evil pawns of the faceless corporations.Basically this movie is Bullsworth's epiphany. He wants to die at first, and with this he has his epiphany - the realisation before his death. Throughout the movie we know that he is going to die, because even though he is popular, he cannot get away with making the statements that he is making. He is being incredibly controversial, and such a stance can never last that long. It rocks the boat way too much and as such can't be allowed to succeed. In the America of the movies things cannot change too much, and in fact, if it has happened before hand, things will be set straight. I guess this then shows the tragedy of society, that when a saviour arrives, he will be killed, because those in power don't want to give it up.

DarthVoorhees 'Bulworth' is a brave film which I think is even more relevant now than when first released. What happens behind the scenes? Senator Jay Bulworth sees those string pullers and is sick of idiots being naive enough to believe they don't exist. What's a man who had noble intentions to do when he is reduced to cynicism? Hire a hit-man to kill himself. What to do while waiting for that trigger to be pulled? Ruin whatever credibility you might have gained in your thirty years of public service. Beatty is brilliant as 'Bulworth' who is a surprising hero. We root for this guy and feel devastatingly sorry for him. Why? He's really nothing but a tremendous jerk.(The scene where he tells an African American Church congregation to "put down the malt liquor and chicken wings and support someone other than a running back who stabs his wife" might be the most racist humor I've ever seen on film). 'Bulworth' is a film about self destruction but the beautiful thing about it is that Jay Bulworth intends to bring down bits and pieces of the establishment down with him. We feel sorry for Bulworth because we know he was someone who was an idealist and who has over the course of many years sold out. If he is to die why not go out in a blaze of glory? These bizarre outbursts on Bulworth's part are portrayed beautifully by Beatty. There is a brilliant mix of catharsis and madness in Bulworth who ends his racist tirade merely saying "that was good" with a breath of relaxation.The film isn't without it's faults. It's brave but there were moments I wanted it to go braver. Where do we want to lead Bulworth? It seems the more appropriate thing to do would be to bring Bulworth to a pinnacle of madness. Instead the opposite happens and Bulworth regains his senses in the form of a love interest. Why? What does this do? For one thing the relationship between Halle Berry and Warren Beatty seems tremendously awkward and forced. What would any woman see in Jay Bulworth? The man has obviously lost his mind. Furthermore Beatty was too old at this point to play a love interest in this fashion. Part of the charm of 'Bulworth' is that this man is supposed to be over the hill. I'm not saying a sexual subplot was uncalled for but not a genuine love story. Let Bulworth crash and burn. What would have been far more interesting is if they had explored Bulworth's relationship with his wife which is only a political marriage. Wouldn't it be funny for Bulworth to enact his frustrations on this woman who has become nothing more than an actress for his boring campaign commercials? I think so.'Bulworth' has a charm and it is very different. Not surprisingly my criticisms of it stem from the conventional moments. The scenes where 'Bulworth' spit in the face of conventional political norms are on par with some of the great political satires