Qyuite a Story

Rating: 9/10 (27 December 2011)

Tommy Riordan (Hardy) trains to be a Kick Boxer and ends up fighting his estranged brother, Brendan, (Edgerton) in the big fight. Both brothers want nothing to do with their father (Nolte).
This is really quite a story and I wondered if it was true. I looked but couldn't find that it was. But, in here you get to know all the characters pretty good as they were well defined. Well, except for Tommy as he has a secret and keeps to himself. The dialogues go a long way to making this real and enjoyable.
The fight scenes are brutal, but just keep telling yourself, "it's only a movie." That didn't work for me as I was getting a real workout squirming this way and that and dodging this and that too. I knew the brothers would end up fighting each other in the final match, but I didn't know who would win. As the story goes, I tended to favor one brother over the other and then a strange thing happened. I started to favor the other brother. Who will you favor?
I thought I was getting weary of all these fight movies, but they seem to get better and better. Who knew?
This is Kick Boxing and it's almost a no holds barred fight. There are rules but when you watch you ask yourself: what are the rules as you don't see any adherence to them whatever they are. Senator John McCain wants the sport abolished as he calls it Human Cock Fighting.
I am sure we will see more of Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton as both did outstanding jobs. Nick Nolte just gets better with age and will someone get him an overdue Oscar one of these days? (9/10) Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: Yes.