Amazing film!

Rating: 10/10 (20 March 2012)

This movie was recommended by a friend and it took me a while to see it. I watched the trailer and I thought it's another film about fighting.
So, when I saw it last night, finally, I was thunder struck by how good the acting was right from the very first scene. I didn't expect that at all. I knew that Nick Nolte is a good and underrated actor but the fact that he is old made me think about Al Pacino and Robert de Niro and some of their last films. But in Warrior, Nick Nolte did an outstanding performance worthy of an Oscar.
About Warrior. The script and the way it was filmed, had me engrossed since the very beginning, the characters story was heart breaking and the director and the writers made me feel for both brothers and for the father, giving them an amazingly sad life previous what the movie shows and I cheered for all of them. I didn't expect a "muscle man" to really act, getting accustomed with Stallone and Arnie's lack of skills, and Tom Hardy proved me wrong. I liked the way he played Tommy, making him an indestructible but fighting his own demons throughout the movie. And Joel Edgerton was new for me because I really didn't pay attention to him or his roles before. They both did an amazing job showing the hurt and the everlasting bond between two brothers.
Maybe Warrior is a big and old cliché since it isn't the first or the last of his kind but I don't care. The last 20 minutes I cried my heart out for both of them and in all my life I didn't cry so much for some fictional characters. I give it 10/10.