Bruno

Sacha Baron Cohen stars as Bruno, his latest film where he totally becomes a different character and runs with it, his follow up to Borat.  In this movie he plays Bruno, an openly gay fashion host of a tv show back in Austria.  Things are going great for Bruno, as he is a top celebrity, gets to sit in the front rows for the fashion shows, interviews all the models,etc.  Following a disaster where he totally destroys a fashion show, he becomes black listed in Austria and is unable to work there anymore in the fashion field.  He then decides that he must go to Los Angeles to become a movie star, being followed to L.A. by the assistant to his assistant, Lutz, played by Gustaf Hammersten.  Lutz does his best to land Bruno acting parts, and when those don't go well, tries to get him into any field he possibly can to make Bruno famous again.  An attempt to make a sex tape with an older politician goes wrong, he feels he is running out of options.  The film kind of slows down with the scenes where Bruno adopts an african baby, even getting the kid to wear a gayby top, and infuriates a talk show audience.  The movie does pick up speed again when Bruno does his thing again when he attempts to go get himself to become straight, and the minister sends him to places where he is supposedly going to get straight. That takes him to places such as a self defense place, military, swingers night, hanging out with show hunters.  These attempts all fail with comic results.  Along his way he has fired his assistant Lutz because Lutz has told him of his love for Bruno.   The film does kind of come to some kind of climax with Lutz outing Bruno's straight Dave at a kind of UFC style event, and them making out right there, enraging a red neck audience.  Sacha has gone to great lengths to entertain people, and at certain moments you wonder if he's gone to far, nearly getting hit by chairs, getting whipped, and chased by angry people in the middle east. All in the name of entertainment for him I guess.  All in all, there were many laughs here, and if you aren't weirded out by a bunch of male frontal nudity, you just might enjoy this film.  One of the funniest scenes near the beginning of the film with Bruno and his boyfriend and the sexual things that they do to each other, makes me wonder how they passed the ratings board.  But, all in all, I found this film quite entertaining.

3.5 out of 5

Goran Savic