Brand: A Second Coming
In a attempt to find happiness, comedian and activist Russell Brand is drowning himself on drugs, sex, and fame. But could he really find the true meaning of happiness, or is it just a self sabotage period?
15 September 1946, New York City, New York, USA
29 November 1979, Essex, England, UK
24 November 1974, Bristol, England, UK
5 August 1969, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, UK
11 May 1950, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK
4 June 1975, Grays, Essex, England, UK
25 October 1984, Santa Barbara, California, USA
20 January 1946, Missoula, Montana, USA
30 June 1966, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
29 May 1967, Longsight, Manchester, England, UK
October 25, 2015
Like The Emperor's New Clothes, A Second Coming gets your brain buzzing.
October 06, 2015
Whatever value there is in seeing a major British media celebrity, who was briefly on track to become a Hollywood star as well, embrace openly radical positions, Brand has delivered that in full.
September 23, 2015
Timoner's doc seems at its best when asking if a person can grow up, atone for their mistakes, lead people to think and make them laugh, all at the same time and in public.
October 25, 2015
You're left with the sense that Brand might yet be the subject of a great documentary, but he'd probably have to be on the other side of the planet while it was being made.
November 03, 2015
Timoner seems reluctant to probe Brand and consequently offers little in the way of revelation.
October 20, 2015
An energetic doc about Essex's manky Mockney messiah.
October 01, 2015
Nearly two hours in his company is at least an hour too much.
October 25, 2015
In the end, the film keeps going round in circles, never quite nailing Brand or making a convincing case for why he matters.
October 23, 2015
A Second Coming is likely to leave audiences with a mixture of admiration for and baffled exasperation with its subject.
September 24, 2015
Whether you agree with his system-damning rhetoric or see him as no better than anyone else in our clogged punditocracy, "Brand: A Second Coming" is, if not a careful portrait, at least an orgy of personality.
October 25, 2015
Brand emerges as exasperating company - variously intelligent, amusing and insufferable - but Noel Gallagher steals the show, declaring that he'll only buy into Brand's revolution if he can be the Duke of Manchester.
September 29, 2015
Brand is incapable of the focus for anything deeper than tactics of charm, glibness, and shock.
