Fascinating....

Rating: 3/10 (13 April 2009)

I find fascinating what people think it is fascinating....
Well, let's start with the positives. TW seems to be an interesting semi documentary about PART of the lives of pro-wrestlers; the depiction of fights in community centers for half-a-dozen spectators, just to make a few dollars must be very depressing and one really feel sorry for their lot. It is even possible to feel sympathy for the character played by Rourke, and that's all about it.
On the other hand, everything else in this movie has already been told countless times before. So, why is people raving about it? I really do not know. TW is about a guy down on his luck, no family, living in a trailer park, that has (it seems) a good heart trying his best to survive on a changing world, I guy that has seen better days.... Seems original? I don't think so.
Maria Tomei plays a stripper and that is all she does in TW; she shows her boobs and butt, nothing more, nothing less. Pretty cheap stuff. Her character adds nothing to the story.
Without the nudity and one sex scene, TW would be like one of these cheap movies they show in the Lifetime channel.
TW should be called "The Cliché'". One even can foresee the climatic end of the movie.