The Wrestler - Movie Review - First Part

Rourke is perfect as ‘Randy’ a dishevelled, dipso, has-been, pro-wrestler ‘potatoed’ by his career; yet remaining the faithful champion of his own roaring, soaring vanity - even as it is killing him. Tomei segues lewdly from Pretty Young Stripper With a Heart of Gold (PYSWaHoG) to POMWaHoS and then back again. He (stronger than a lion) is the pole she swings off; she (sweeter than honey) is the top rope he sags upon.

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The Wrestler - Movie Review - Penultimate Part

To Randy, the wrestling ring is a prison yard. However ignominious, it is a merciful release from the immiserating torment of the prison cell which the rest of his life has become. Still, in ‘commence-de-siecle’ America even pro-wrestling is without honour. Half a century ago those American working class men who held their jobs and their worth by simple physical strength saw mechanisation slowly undermine their jobs and their worth.

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The Wrestler - Movie Review - last part

And so, the wrestling ring became the final fastness of the working class hero. The blue-collared, red-necked champion’s last redoubt. But, in our century, even wrestling is debauched; an ignoble Grand-Guignol theatre: matches are rigged; and wrestlers rise, not through ability, but politicking. And so, the deed is nothing, the glory is everything; and the money falls somewhere in between. (Randy puts it succinctly: ‘The nineties sucked’.) And so, calm of mind all passion spent, Abraham’s daggy-braided sacrificial ram dives among the Philistines.

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Incredible

This was an incredibly engrossing story. One can't help but be sucked in by, and even relate to, Randy's world. Mickey Rourke gives a wonderfully nuanced performance, and his portrayal of a man who who has hit rock bottom - yet still manages to retain some semblance of dignity, self respect and hope - is absolutely captivating. This film will have even the hardest wrestling fan reaching for the Kleenex!

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Crap film, don't bother

If you enjoy watching people staple money to each other's foreheads, by all means, knock yourself out on this film. Who the hell are these morons, anyway?

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Andy The Wrestler

well i guess we've all come to a crossroad where you feel you must choose one path or the other and for andy wrestling being his passion, how could he resist.. ..nothing beats doing something you love! This doesnt seem wrong or harmful as there are rules in the sport and it brings his soul to life!

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