
An amazingly vacuous film about an amazingly vacuous character,
Bruno is not the movie that its big brother
Borat was.
Sacha Baron Cohen’s newest film reaches the same level of disgusting, mind blowing outrageousness without the sense of innocence the
Borat character brought to the screen.
Bruno, the man, is an obnoxious twit with no redeeming qualities, even when he attempts charity. In fact you’ll be hard pressed to find a character worth sympathy or admiration in the film. Just as in
Borat, Cohen attempts to humiliate and expose the famous and not so famous at every turn, a noble task indeed, but in this case not quite so successful. His own egocentrism overwhelms theirs negating the charm of Cohen's other "B" character.
Bruno begins in Austria with the title character filming his popular fashion show. Naturally the young man rubs too many people the wrong way until his popularity wanes, his show is cancelled and he’s blackballed from TV, film and even fashion. The young Bruno chooses the obvious place to regain his popularity and become world famous…America. Sure enough he and a rather lame assistant travel to the United States to seek his fortune. READ MORE