Warrior – The Fight of a Lifetime
Despite being bagged by the Los Angeles Times, Warrior is a “must see” movie for anyone interested in a dramatic story about family love and personal pain. Starring Australian actor Joel Edgerton, and with terrific performances by Tom Hardy, and Nick Nolte, Warrior is a story about the damaged relationship between two brothers and their father.
While set in the world of mixed martial arts, the movie is more about mending past deeds, rising above the odds, and confronting limitations, than ground impounds, and tap-outs. The New York Times had a more glowing review of Warrior:
“In such conditions stripping down to your shorts and beating another guy senseless can seem not only logical, but also noble. The mock-gladiatorial theatrics of mixed martial arts may look tawdry and overblown, but the sport, perhaps even more than boxing, expresses a deep and authentic impulse to find meaning through the infliction and acceptance of pain.”
Warrior is a great movie, and while a contemporary variation on another more famous storyline, “the most disarming thing about “Warrior” is that, for all its mayhem, it is a movie about love.”
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George Clooney Is The American
Directed by one the world’s best portrait photographers Anton Corbijn, “The American” follows Jack a professional assassin (played by George Clooney), on his last “job” in the Italian countryside where he settles into a small town. While in the town he becomes romantically involved, and develops a friendship with a local priest, all in an attempt to put his past behind him, and reconnect with himself.
The film is not really an action picture and upon second viewing, it’s not even really a thriller. “The American” is really a character study. It’s the story of one man searching for redemption amidst betrayal, loneliness, revenge and love. The film is beautifully filmed in Italy. The action is subdued. In short, it’s not everyone’s cup of tea.
If you want to see a great photographer ditching his style and going for an all-out action movie, avoid this. You’ll end up disappointed. But if you want to see a carefully paced, well-designed and beautifully shot redemption-movie, then you could do far worse than “The American.”