A different kind of review

Rating: 10/10 (27 February 2015)

Firstly, the movie is totally captivating. It's uncomfortable, tension-filled and electric. Acted exactly right, you feel as if you're there, in the characters shoes, experiencing all of the emotions as if they're a part of you... an uncomfortable part of you.
Filmed exactly right, expressions captured with all of their raw emotion, I was stunned when I discovered this was a relatively inexpensive Indie made in just 19 days! It's a different kind of review because I know that world. The world of hard-edge, power-driven, maniacal coaches that push to the limit, often, and mostly, without empathy, understanding that human greatness will not soar forth from the banal and the 'good enough' effort. However, the mental and emotional games and the cruelty can be seriously difficult to watch in this movie. It's arguable whether hard-hitting and demeaning instructors make or break students, but there's always that chance that once in a lifetime, the extremity of humiliation, mind games and emotional battering will meet with the kind of resistance and brilliance that every coach can only dream of.
A must see movie.