overrated

Rating: 6/10 (25 July 2009)

This is a fairly good, formulaic movie shot almost in the form of a documentary about an ageing , broken wrestler trying to recreate past glories and to salvage something from his broken life. Mickey Rourke was superb in his role and deserved all the credit he deserves but there was nothing here that was truly memorable that would have me applauding at the end which it sounds like others here wanted to do. Maybe everyone is fawning over director Aronofsky again who is the current darling of the movie industry and could probably win an award for filming paint drying. The movie was very gritty and realistic and it did pull on the heartstrings in many ways but reading comments that portray this as the best movie of the year and in best 50 movie of all time lists is way out of line. It is however the best wrestling movie I've ever seen!