So I saw the film called "Warrior" by Gavin O'Connor. This movie is in a way the logical continuation of Aronofsky's the Wrestler and Russel's the Fighter. It portrays white trash americans who lives on the hope and the dream of making in big fighting for prize-money. Unfortunately even this movie does not venture into the shady business of the promotors but instead focuses on the broken family situation. The story in this one screams even louder than the former two; trying to squeeze in almost as many fantastic plot-twists as a South Korean flick. But O'Connor gets it together, just barely but the story holds and he even makes it to that hard end. So a short golf clap for that.
What I was not amused by was the bad camera work. How the fight scenes could be allowed to get shaken to shit I do not understand. I had more fun watching a real fight that I knew the ending of than the orchestrated and presumably more interesting scenes from this movie. The acting and choreography was not what seemed to fail, but then again with such flawed camera work who could actually say?
If you want to see a good fight film, see something else. If you are looking for a WT-version of a South Korean plot-twister with some nice tie ins to the Fighter and the Wrestler this is it.
