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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