Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

djfrost-46786 The soundtrack made this movie. This movie is horrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Predrag A politician has nothing left to lose.. so why not speak the truth? Warren Beatty's Senator Jay Bulworth lays down the smack: the reason the working man (in this movie, the working class is cleverly disguised as hip-hop mavens) doesn't have a voice, is he doesn't have the sway or monetary bullocks to *buy* a voice. Words aren't worth a penny unless you're worth billions. And of course, from the first instant, this divine fool's failure is certain and imminent: Big Business, what with its grimy fingers perpetually immersed in the U.S. Government's proverbial tub of crunchy Jif, would never allow a politician like Bulworth to succeed, at the risk of the working class' newfound capacity to leech the power from the insurance companies and tire manufacturers.Beneath the sometimes dark comedy, Bulworth has a lot of insightful and painful comments to may about our often hypocritical and ineffectual government. These observations are made satirically, but effectively. This is not a heavy-handed work. One thing that hampered Bulworth at the box-office was its portrayal of the man in the black community. People didn't get it. They were offended, especially many liberal white people. Beatty was in no way making fun of African-Americans by showing a very streetwise group. His point, which I thought was fairly obvious, was that many people will behave in an antisocial way in a society that is largely indifferent and often hostile towards them. I think that's almost a no-brainer. Bulworth is that rare politician who has soul. I agree that Warren Beaty's rapping was sub par, but who cares? "Bulworth" makes a powerful statement that in order to transcend problems of crime, poverty, racism, and political corruption we are going to have to take a cold hard look at who we really are and what is really happening around us. Accepting other people particularly from different racial and economic backgrounds has to be more than just an insincere speech act. It must be an act of good will that is grounded in practical reality.Overall rating: 8 out of 10.

SnoopyStyle It's 1996. Californian Democratic Senator Jay Bulworth (Warren Beatty) is worn out and cracking up. His politics has been drifting right. He suffered a large lost shorting pork bellies. He gets $10 million in life insurance to be paid to his 17 year old daughter. He hires a hit-man to kill him. When the hit doesn't happen as expected, he starts acting strange. His off-the-cuff speech at a black church attracts Nina (Halle Berry). His chief of staff Dennis Murphy (Oliver Platt) is besides himself while C-SPAN is filming a special on the senator. As his truth raps gain media traction, he tries desperately to cancel his assassination.I like the idea a lot better than the actual execution. Firstly, I don't find this that funny. I don't think I actually laughed. A few things irk me the wrong way. I find Warren Beatty a bit creepy in this role. He's unbalanced and I have a difficult time fully embracing him. It's watching an old white guy trying to act black. It may be funny for a second but it's terribly awkward. The movie needs to find its heart and it seems to be his daughter. He's essentially doing the assassination to give to his daughter but she's never on the screen. The movie needs to start with him and her having an emotional scene. It needs to anchor the whole movie and that is the missing piece. She is his heart.Murphy is too slow to catch on. He needs to be on the ball quicker. He does say that Bulworth needs to tell him what the play is. However, he should be smart enough to come up with a play himself and so much more. He could be a great insightful character if he's written smarter. Not to mention the couple of stereotypical black girls in the posse. The high-minded political talk is also mind-numbing. There are moments that I like and I want the movie to go a different way sometimes. This is a movie where I love the concept but the execution isn't as much fun as I hope.

Robert J. Maxwell Warren Beatty is a California Senator who hasn't slept or eaten anything for days. He's distracted, exhausted, going mad. He decides to take out a large insurance policy and then arranges to have himself murdered by a hit man he's never met. Since he knows he's losing his life, losing his political position begins to look like a small matter, so he appears disheveled at fund raisers and criticizes Jews at a meeting of movie moguls, blacks at a meeting of blacks, refers to Catholics as "mackeral snappers," and so on. His staff are going mad too by this time.Eventually, Beatty falls in with a large and diverse black family in the ghetto, led there in a sinuous path by Hallie Berry. He picks up a skill at rhyming speech, dresses like a home boy in shades and phat pants, and gets one too many capitalists angry at him when he takes up liberal causes.I don't know why it doesn't work better than it does. It's not Beatty's performance, which is about as good as it usually is, and he has some very funny moments. The performances of Beatty's staff, led by Oliver Platt, are fine as well, except that they turn chaotic at the end. It's not Hallie Berry, who is so sexy, so beautiful, so fey in her prospect that she can do no wrong. Her father was African-American and her mother was a white European. She's only categorized as "black" because we all agree that she should be. Just as it's only common agreement that gives English separate words for "blue" and "green", while other languages have only one word for both colors. Sometimes "reality" is what we make of it. I'm throwing that in, just in case anyone is curious about issues like this. They should look up "the social construction of reality" in Google. Beatty's improvised rap lyrics are amusing when they're not too fast or too complicated to understand. The hip hop music is execrable. My heart sinks when I hear it because it takes so little skill to produce. I have more than enough electronic percussion ringing in my ears from the moment I get out of bed. And when my nervous system started to go berserk, my thoughts took on a peculiar configuration too but it had class -- iambic pentameter. I'm not sure of the significance of the ending. We've had a kind of lecture on the positions that many blacks are forced into, including the children, and the bitterness they feel towards whites. When Bullworth begins to spout his more generous views, at least some of them, like Don Cheadle, are so amazed that they reform. Okay. A nice warm and uplifting ending. But if it's supposed to be a feel-good fairy tale, why have Bullworth end up as he does? It doesn't seem as if the writers had a clear end game in sight. They're like some of our politicians trying to manage events in the turbulent Middle East.