Incredible Performance, Good Movie

Rating: 8/10 (16 July 2009)

I think that pretty much sums up this very good movie, it's very good but not really a "picture of the year" kind of thing, what really makes it stand out is the lead performance by Mickey Rourke as an aging, washed up wrestler who just won't quit and really has nothing else in his life that he can do. Marissa Tomei is also very good as the lead actress supporting Rourke but this is Rourke's picture and his performance and the film as a whole are brutal and honest and really touching and you just can't turn away from it. This is the role Mickey Rourke was born to play and it is the role that definitely has turned his career around after many years of doing nothing good.