Emotional, realistic and strong movie

Rating: 9/10 (20 January 2009)

I saw this movie after couple of minutes and I'm starting to write a review. It really holding me strong this movie, and for me it's a sign that movie is a good.
Mickey Rourke perfectly fit into this role of old wrestler. I think that Bruce Willis couldn't do better role as near as a Mickey. The wrestling in this movie is a very raw and little bloody and realistic. That is expected, because mickey was a wrestler in a real life and no one could replace his role.
This movie isn't only about wrestling. It's a story about bad relationship about dad and daughter. Mickey is an old wrestler who has a nostalgic about his wrestling and his career. He was a ultimately wrestling star in the 80's. Now he is fighting only for a money and he figures that his heart is too weak for a battle. He leaving that brutal sport and starts work in market. When he was injured at work, he want to fighting again against his old man, back in the 80's.
I asking myself why Mickey didn't die at the end of the movie. I think it's not appropriate idea, because this movie is a very emotional drama, and his death will give the movie a clue that the Mickey is a legend. Now he is a only a very strong man who can keep wrestling, even is he very old. Either, I think that the end is actually good, and hope that on DVD will be an alternate ending. And I forget to say that Bruce Springsteen song is very good and appropriate at the end. It gives a movie a weight.
Also, this piece of work is better than any Rocky bullshit and Million Dollar Girl. Both movies doesn't have a realistic documentary feeling through film, and this is reason why is movie so realistic.
It will be very bad if Mickey doesn't get a Oscar for best performance.