Review – Bulworth

Here we have either a brilliant little bit of absurdism or a miserable failure of a message piece comedy. Toward the end, it starts to look more and more like the audience has been subjected to the latter. Warren Beatty wrote this one himself, so he really doesn’t have any excuse for appearing in such a dreadful production. This is a bizarre tale of a senator who has a nervous breakdown and begins to speak candidly and publicly about power politics in America, particularly the racial and economic components thereof. Although it features a couple of amusing moments, for the most part the jokes fall flat and the message becomes tedious fairly swiftly. See if desperate