Warrior
Synopsis:
The movie opens with ex-Marine Corps, Tommy Riordan (Tom Hardy) visit his father, Paddy (Nick Nolte), a former alcoholic who has been sober for nearly 1000 days. As the conversation continued, it has been found that Paddy has divorced / separated from his wife due to his alcoholic habit. Tommy follows his mom while Paddy's older son, Brenden (Joel Edgerton) follows him. However, Tommy's mom succumb to illness and finally passed away, thus Tommy has always had the strong hatred for his dad. The next day while training in a gym, Tommy accidentally beat unconscious a UFC mixed martial art fighter, Mad Dog Pete Grimes, while sparring with him. Due to this, Tommy decided to ask his dad, Paddy to help train him since his dad was an experience coach in wrestling for a Sparta Tournament with a prize money of $5million. It is later explained in the movie that Tommy enters the tournament in order to donate his winning to the widow and son of his fallen friend in the Marine Corps. The movie then panned to Paddy older son, Brenden a physics teacher, a father with 2 daughters who is also having his own financial problem and was about to have his home foreclosed by bank. As such, he is moonlighting as a mixed-martial art fighter at night to earn some extra income. He then decided to enter the tournament so that he can try to win the prize money to help in his financial difficulties. With his friend-coach, Frank Campana, Brenden decided to re-train himself to be physically fit for the competition. During the competition, Brenden saw Tommy and then both decided to meet up for conversation. At this time, Tommy is also burn with hatred for his brother for leaving both him and his mom to fend for themselves by choosing his father over them. Brenden inform Tommy that he is also upset that he was kept in the dark on his mom's illness and passing. Thus, both went off in different direction and finally both met again in the finals of the tournament where they slug it out from their anger and despair for each other and finally the forgiveness from each other.
Review:
I had always wanted to watch this film due to the very positive review but always delay until last weekend where i managed to pop-in the DVD to my recorder and watch it. From the start go, this movie has me keeping to the edge with its good dialogue, acting from all the main actors such as Nick Nolte who gave a wonderful performance as a father seeking forgiveness to Joel Edgerton who is an average joe going into the tournament an underdog to Tom Hardy, a silent but with full of anger individual seeking for solace. Director Gavin O' Connor manage to keep the viewers excited with a good match of drama and action at the ringside. When the tournament started, the action is bloody and the choreographer is beautifully executed. Tom Hardy as Tommy is extremely menacing inside the ring and he is the one i was rooting for when he demolish his opponent one by one to reach to the finals. I am anticipating his character, Bane in The Dark Night Rises to be somehow good. Part of the movie reminded me of Rocky and the spirited performance from both brothers makes me somehow torn between who to root for. Overall this is indeed a good movie with combination of drama of seeking forgiveness, about family and of course, its bloody good fighting action.
Verdict:
I give this movie a full 5 star out of 5 for excellent cast, story and above all the fighting action. I watch the movie x2 again immediately and that goes to show how good this movie is.
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