Like a switch being turned.....

Rating: 8/10 (7 March 2013)

Lincoln Hawk is a struggling trucker who's trying to rebuild his life.
After the death of his wife, he tries to make amends with his son who he left behind years earlier.
On their first meeting, his son doesn't think too highly of him, until he enters a nationwide arm wrestling competition in Las Vegas.
So in reality, Stallone allegedly just did this for the money, thinking no one would see the movie, but this is one of his better efforts of the eighties, and possibly his most cult film.
It's the same Los story, of Father and son bonding, the son not wanting to know until he discovers the little maguffin this film carries (arm wrestling), and of course the rich person who wants to keep them apart (Robert Loggia, doing his best angry acting).
We all know how it will conclude, but we watch and we enjoy, and then realise that 25 years down the line we still end up watching it when it's on TV.
Stallone is his usual self here, he seems to be acting better, but that's because the majority of the people he shares screen time with are awful.
Soundtrack is okay, and it has a real Sunday afternoon movie feel to it, but its all good predictable family fun.
The final fifteen minutes, is tense, even though you know the outcome from the minute you read the synopsis of the film on the back of the Blu-Ray.
Worth seeing if you are a fan of Stallone.
Plus it's the best arm wrestling movie ever made.