Excellent acting and directing beautifully shows what happens after 15 minutes of fame

Rating: 8/10 (11 July 2013)

This movie provides a glimpse into a life of an aging professional wrestler whose glory days are long behind him. Acting performance by Mickey Rurick is absolutely outstanding, perhaps because he can easily draw on experiences from his own life. It is easy to sympathize with him and you quickly get emotionally involved in his life's struggles. The atmosphere in the movie helps to transmit the themes of isolation and cruel realities of life. This movie is a character driven drama. The plot is pretty straightforward. It mainly serves to show different aspects of Rurick's character. Overall, this isn't a ground-breaking movie but it accomplishes everything it set out to do.