I'm in the minority here...

Rating: 7/10 (26 April 2011)

Rourke is indeed very good as a aging wrestler disintegrating before our eyes. And there are some beautifully shot sequences.
But there's also a lot of hokum, especially in the failed relationship with his daughter, and the stripper played by Marisa Tomei, who is trapped in a similar downward spiral to Rourke, and may be his only hope, simply doesn't have the depth to balance him.
For me, a good, solid movie, but not the masterpiece a lot of critics claimed, at least on first viewing.
I'm a fan of Aronofsky's, but I found this the least compelling of his films.