dougdoepke The movie may look goofy, but it's not. Note how the rule of big money behind our democratic façade is exposed. It could have been done in bits and pieces and through corruptive behavior, but that would have made the message less focused. Of course, simply declaiming the political message would have sounded preachy. Instead, Bulworth does a wacky in-your-face by delivering the message in unmistakable, yet entertaining fashion. That's done by having the senator succumb to an alter ego brought on by mental exhaustion over his planned suicide. Serious messages are then wrapped in comedic contrasts. No more suit and tie for the new Bulworth. Instead, he looks like he went shopping in the dark at a charity ward. In fact, the now truth-telling hipster appears his real self suddenly breaking through the conventional façade. At the same time, watching him defy deadening media clichés amounts to a jarring hoot. And after romantic pursuit of an eye-catching Black woman (Berry), he learns day-to-day facts of ghetto plight by staying with her family. And when not speaking truth to power at White fund-raisers, Beatty's Bulworth uses his newly acquired hip-hop to rhyme out the message in catchy rapper fashion. Either way, it's one of the cleverest approaches to undercutting deadening political authority that I've seen.No pretty-boy Beatty here. Pushing 60, he's haggard looking throughout, doing little to compensate until the end. Of course, that's the way it should be, given the emphasis on message. I suspect it's a movie the lefty actor-director-producer has long wanted to make. And make it he did, in spades.

Ben Larson "All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep f*ckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color."I revisit this film periodically as it is so appropriate to what is happening in the country. Warren Beatty has written, directed, and starred in a timeless ode to the fact that our fascist state is so behind in health care and taking care of the poor."Obscenity? The rich is getting richer and richer and richer while the middle class is getting more poor/ Making billions and billions and billions of bucks/ well my friend if you weren't already rich at the start well that situation just sucks/cause the riches mother f*cker in five of us is getting ninety f*ckin eight percent of it/ and every other motherf*cker in the world is left to wonder where the f*ck we went with it."Yes, we are reminded by this film that we are all at the mercy of the rich. They rape the riches of America and enslave the rest of us. It's hard to take, especially by those who would excuse their behavior because they are waiting for their in the "Promised Land." "I'm giving them entry-level positions into the only growth-sector occupation that's truly open to them right now. That's the substance supply industry. They gonna run this sh*t someday. They gonna have the whole empire. Man, y'all don't give a f*ck about it. You greedy-ass politicians. That's what you tell me every time that y'all vote to cut them school programs; every time y'all vote to cut them funds to the job programs. What the f*ck; how a... how a young man gonna take care of his financial responsibilities workin' at motherf*ckin' Burger King? He ain't. He ain't, and please don't even start with the school sh*t. They ain't no education going' on up in that motherf*cker. 'Cause y'all motherf*ckin' politicians done f*cked the sh*t up. So what they gonna do? What's a young man supposed to do then, right? What's he gonna do? He gonna come to me, that's what he's gonna do. Why? 'Cause I'm a businessman, and as a businessman, you gotta limit your liabilities. And that's what these shorties offer me: limited liabilities; because of their limited vulnerability to legal sanctions, man. It's the same f*ckin' thing in politics, Dog. You find an edge, you gotta exploit that sh*t. That's why y'all sent all them motherf*ckin' teenagers to Iraq. Die over some motherf*ckin' oil money. Send the motherf*ckin' CIA up in the 'hood with all the f*ckin yayos. Slangin' in the hood man. It's the same sh*t in politics."We wonder why we have a problem in this country when we have an education system that is no better that is was before Brown V Topeka, and we keep sending the poor to fight so the rich can get richer.Sure, Bulworth is a political movie made by one of the most political people in Hollywood. It stings and it hurts those who are the object of the numerous political barbs contained therein. It hits at Democrats and Republicans - all politicians are equally to blame for the mess we have.You have to love Warren Beatty for having the courage to make this. It had some other greats here, too, in a huge cast. Halle Berry, Sean Astin, Don Cheadle, Oliver Platt and others, including cameos by Al Gore and others.I've given you a taste. See more, if you dare.

runamokprods Other than a few forced silly moments, this is the sharpest, darkest, bravest. most disturbing political satire out of Hollywood since "Network". This is Beatty's career best performance by far, making his rapidly breaking down liberal Democrat Senator into a character simultaneously howlingly funny, pitiable, admirable, wince inducing, pathetic and horrifying. Beatty has made a film that walks the razor's edge right along with it's lead character, playing into deliberately provoking racial and cultural stereotypes at the same time it shreds them. This isn't a polite "the system needs fixing" movie, it's an in-your-face scream that the system is broken, perhaps beyond all repair. That idea seems only more timely now.

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