Devastating.

Rating: 10/10 (8 May 2012)

This is a very emotionally driven movie, with pitch-perfect performances.
Nolte is amazing and was frankly robbed at the Oscars. Hardy is brilliant and Edgerton successfully underplays his role.
Along with 'the Fighter', the story is all about family and sticking together.
MMA is the backdrop and provides a good setting for these three men to duke out their differences.
This is a drama first, the spectacle is the powerful acting.
And admittedly, it relies on many of the clichés of this particular genre but it remains gripping and true to itself, the story.
Which could just as easily have been a true one. It probably is.
10 out of 10.