Bullet | 
| Director: Julien Temple
Actors: Mickey Rourke, Frank Senger, Adrien Brody, John Enos Iii, Fatmir Haskaj
Studio: New Line Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  50 reviews
Sales Rank: 3839
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 96 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: TRNDN6134D
ISBN: 0780641140
UPC: 794043613425
EAN: 9780780641143
ASIN: B00007BK2R
Theatrical Release Date: 1995
Release Date: January 14, 2003
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Mickey Rourke is Butch "Bullet" Stein and the late Tupac Shakur is Tank in this stylish, Julien Temple-directed crime drama. Narrative is secondary to atmosphere in the violent, yet sensitive tale of an ex-con (Rourke) attempting to adjust to life on the outside. The minute Bullet emerges from the pen, however, the blood and profanity begin to flow just as freely as the references to Dali and Picasso (his younger brother is an artist). His drug problem is bad enough, but the biggest threat comes from the Kangol-sporting, eye-patched Tank, who intends to get his revenge for the eye Bullet took from him. Classical music and opera, meanwhile, bump up against hip-hop and Barry White. Despite the billing, this is Rourke's show all the way and Tupac's part is quite small in comparison. Ted Levine (The Silence of the Lambs) and Adrien Brody (The Pianist) star as Bullet's eccentric brothers. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Product Description
Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 06/01/2004 Run time: 96 minutes Rating: R
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Still Not Bad After 12 years February 1, 2009
Reggie L. Mattocks (Upper Marlboro, MD)
I had bought this movie originally a couple of years after PAC was killed and I enjoyed it a lot. Looking at it again this evening on the IFC channel on cable, the one thing that stood out now as compared to watching it back then was the stars who were in this movie and how they've blown up since. We all know PAC was on the verge of blowing up movie wise before his death. Mickey was always Mickey and he kind of crashed and burned after this one but now has risen like a Phoenix back on the scene as an Oscar contender in "The Wrestler". Oscar worthy? Talented as hell yes, but Oscar and Mickey Rourke in the same sentence who'd a thought it. Adrien Brody has blown up nicely since as well winning an Oscar in the "Pianist" in 2002. Who can forget Ted Levine as Buffalo Bill in the original Silence of the Lambs and his appearance in the crime thriller Heat. Donnie Wahlberg as "Big Balls" in this movie and of course Michael K. Williams aka Omar Little from HBO's The Wire as Hi Top. Watching this movie again after all these years, with a little better directing and scriptwriting and with this talented cast, this film had potential to be a classic urban flick. But we all gotta start somewhere. Still a good collector's item flick for PAC fans and fans of hood movies.
 Horrible December 19, 2008
john m mozuke
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Big Mickey Rourke fan here but this movie was horrible. Rourke was good but the entire movie was just a big pile of dung. Don't even bother.
Gritty street cred drama July 22, 2008
Barry Varkel (Cape Town South Africa)
Bullet is Mickey Rourke's show, he owns it. Plus there's also a high quality ensemble cast comprising the impressive line-up of the late Tupac Shakur, Adrien Brody and Ted Levine. The storyline involves Butch Stein(Rourke) being released from prison after serving time for taking the rap for a crime he did not commit. Uppermost in his mind upon his release are two things:getting loaded on smack and getting his own back on his arch enemy Tank(Shakur). The Stein family is comically dysfunctional and the hysterical reunion dinner dialogue involving the convict Butch Stein(Rourke), the schizophrenic psychotic "GI Joe" Lewis Stein(Levine) and the "Salvador Dali" Ruby Stein (Brody) with them all being thirty something, still living at home, being terrorised by their alcoholic ball- breaking overworked father and nannied by their yenter jewish mother really sent me over the edge. It's the classic Jewish "We did eveything we could for you boys and look how you turned out" schpiel.
Butch Stein knows he is too far gone on the drug addiction and life of crime for any reform and his fate is to finally square off his revenge with drug dealer Tank.
There is a great supporting cast and John Enos III as the closeted homosexual Stein family friend Lester delivers a solid and convincing performance. Julien Temple delivers a sylishly directed film with wonderful camera angles, a superb Barry White music score which adds to the contradictory love and beauty theme within the contorted urban grit of big bad city life.
Fully recommended.
 It was ok March 26, 2008
Derrick Dunn (Woodbridge,VA)
Bullet wasn't Tupac's best movie role but it's a decent movie. Mickey Rourke for once doesn't do his method acting . The film has some decent cinematography and a chilling performance from Ted Levine as Rourke's brother. Maybe if more people had seen this film it would got the respect it deserves.
 this movie is raw December 21, 2006
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
this is a classic gangsta flim of the 80's it shows how street life in new york was back then this movie is cold and mean this is a great movie i loved it and berry white tracks and that other track that song i'am too sexy 4 my shirt they played the music at the right times during the movie this is a hardcore movie they did a great job makeing it and one of my fav rappers 2pac is it not just 2pac everyboby did a great job makeing all the actters were great this movie is worth your money so if u like gangsta flims buy this its worth ur money.
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