Director: Gavin O'ConnorStars: Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte and Joel Edgerton
Genres: Action | Drama | Sport
Release Date: 27 October 2011
Memorable quote: sorry but I just loved all off those
Frank Campana: You don't knock him out, you lose the fight. Understand me? You don't knock him out, you don't have a home.
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Bryan Callen: I'll tell you what: you do that to someone on the street and they'd lock you up and throw away the key! Break out the yellow tape, Sam. Tommy's walking away from the cage like he's leaving a crime scene.
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Frank Campana: You popped his shoulder? Good. I want you to pop his other shoulder.
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Bryan Callen: I'll tell you what: you do that to someone on the street and they'd lock you up and throw away the key! Break out the yellow tape, Sam. Tommy's walking away from the cage like he's leaving a crime scene.
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Frank Campana: You popped his shoulder? Good. I want you to pop his other shoulder.
What?
Two brothers go on an epic journey to the truth of life. Tommy Riordan an ex-marine haunted by his past, comes back to his hometown, filled with rage and anger on everybody and everyone finding his arch enemy, his father and ex-coach and decides to compete in the tournament for the ultimate fighting champion, worth 5 million dollars, for honor and money. On the other side far away from this story we find Brendan a former MMA fighter about to lose his house to the financial crisis, and a job which doesn’t pay off his debts. His only choice is to get back in the ring and try to survive each round for his family. Both ways are bound to cross each other at the main event of the evening, may the better brother win or better said survive.
Two brothers go on an epic journey to the truth of life. Tommy Riordan an ex-marine haunted by his past, comes back to his hometown, filled with rage and anger on everybody and everyone finding his arch enemy, his father and ex-coach and decides to compete in the tournament for the ultimate fighting champion, worth 5 million dollars, for honor and money. On the other side far away from this story we find Brendan a former MMA fighter about to lose his house to the financial crisis, and a job which doesn’t pay off his debts. His only choice is to get back in the ring and try to survive each round for his family. Both ways are bound to cross each other at the main event of the evening, may the better brother win or better said survive.
Yes?
Since I was much younger and I mean much younger I loved fighting movies, this included Rocky (1-4, the fifth I didn’t really like, karate kid, weird Kungfu movies and you can just go on and on) and honestly this love didn’t really change with the years, maybe the quality needs to be better and be more convenient, but when two people kick the crap out of each other this just keeps my adrenaline flowing. So as I said it this movie brings MMA, for those unfamiliar with this, Mixed Martial Arts, it brings you everything from Jujitsu, Karate, Wrestling, Kung Fu together, just name it, everything is here, and of course everything is allowed. Ok you have some minor rules, but you have the blood, brute force and adrenaline. You get the idea, this is some interesting field, but that’s only one of the reasons I loved this movie. The fighting scenes, the different styles of every fighter, made this as realistic as it can get. It looked real, when someone got knocked out I was actually cheering in front of my TV for my fighter, he just finds a place in
Since I was much younger and I mean much younger I loved fighting movies, this included Rocky (1-4, the fifth I didn’t really like, karate kid, weird Kungfu movies and you can just go on and on) and honestly this love didn’t really change with the years, maybe the quality needs to be better and be more convenient, but when two people kick the crap out of each other this just keeps my adrenaline flowing. So as I said it this movie brings MMA, for those unfamiliar with this, Mixed Martial Arts, it brings you everything from Jujitsu, Karate, Wrestling, Kung Fu together, just name it, everything is here, and of course everything is allowed. Ok you have some minor rules, but you have the blood, brute force and adrenaline. You get the idea, this is some interesting field, but that’s only one of the reasons I loved this movie. The fighting scenes, the different styles of every fighter, made this as realistic as it can get. It looked real, when someone got knocked out I was actually cheering in front of my TV for my fighter, he just finds a place in
our hearts.
Feelings, I was afraid when I saw the trailer for the first time, I wasn’t sure how they will pull of the fact that the audience will need to choose one brother on behalf of the other. And dam if they didn’t do an awesome job by doing what they did. I don’t want to ruin anything here, but I think they made some good choices. I felt with the characters, maybe this was a fighting movie, but this was also a family drama, this brought us, love, fear and desperation all in one movie, and this is amazing.
The actors were just magnificent, the two brothers and the father couldn’t be any better. Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte and Joel Edgerton, just brought us a masterpiece.
No?
Besides the three heroes mentioned here above, I think some other performances could have been better, Jennifer Morrison, even though I’m a huge fan, could have done a better job.
Besides the three heroes mentioned here above, I think some other performances could have been better, Jennifer Morrison, even though I’m a huge fan, could have done a better job.
And the more obvious problem in this movie is the cheesiness, we can’t go around it, it has to be there, even though they have minimized it as much as possible, it still was there.
Well…
First of all I’m sorry I review this so late, I wanted to watch it, but never came to it, big mistake on my part. If you haven’t watched it yet, this is the next movie you should watch, its hardcore with some major feelings, loved it. Because of all the above I grade this one…
First of all I’m sorry I review this so late, I wanted to watch it, but never came to it, big mistake on my part. If you haven’t watched it yet, this is the next movie you should watch, its hardcore with some major feelings, loved it. Because of all the above I grade this one…
Grade: 8.5 out of 10
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