Mediocre film that borrows extensively from ROCKY, THE FIGHTER

Rating: 6/10 (20 November 2019)

WARRIOR's greatest asset is the acting, notably by Tom Hardy (to me, one of the current generation's greatest thespians) and Edgerton. Nolte is also watchable, though in the sequence where he is drunk and starts seeing his younger son (Hardy) as Moby Dick, he just makes the whole thing much too contrived.
The script borrows substantially from ROCKY, particularly when lovely Jennifer Morrison comes to watch Edgerton at the ring. The ending is also much too schmaltzy, clearly out of tune with the grittiness and realism of the film's first half.
Wrestling and kick boxing action sequences are generally well done, but I could not believe that Edgerton would subdue much bigger and stronger men.
Ultimately, I felt cheated by this overlong rehash of another, far better, film, THE FIGHTER (2010).