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FIGHT!!

Today's film was Gavin O'Connor's

Warrior (2011)

A NYTimes Critics' Pick.

With Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, estranged brothers, and Nick Nolte as their dad. Mixed martial arts.

You can take all your boxing and wrestling and put them aside. This is fighting.

It is basically a fight film which in history is often the best kind of movie.

O'Connor has caught it here. The story is unique and very modern with appropriate twists and the filming is very exciting. Edge of the seat. Whether you like the blood or not. Although, I have seen MMA live and this had a lot less blood. Also less spit and teeth.

What is standard is the alcoholic father who doted on the wrong son and all that.

Cheap melodrama in less able hands. But this transcends.

The winner is love. Believe it or not. Right there in all the mess and sweat and cheering from the knuckle draggers in the seats.

No one gives up anything easily. Yes there is a good brother and a "bad" brother but these are post modern times and a new millennium and so it is now different, this moral divide.

I would gladly see it again. This is the second film with Tom Hardy in the last few weeks (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy). He is formidable.

I wouldn't mind seeing this again. Time will tell. In the meantime, a 4 out of Netflix5.

Labels: films