- Format: Limited Collector's Edition
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B002BSTBQI
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 33,497 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Darren Aronofsky directs this searing drama about a past-his-prime wrestler who tries to regain his earlier fame. Mickey Rourke (ANGEL HEART, SIN CITY) continues a career revival of his own as the fighter, while Oscar winner Marisa Tomei (IN THE BEDROOM, MY COUSIN VINNY) and Evan Rachel Wood (THIRTEEN, DOWN IN THE VALLEY) co-star. Rourke is Randy 'The Ram' Robinson, a one-time superstar of professional wrestling who's down on his luck, estranged from his teenage daughter (Wood) and clinging onto the remains of his career by appearing in brutally violent bouts that barely pay him enough to make the rent on his trailer park home. It soon becomes clear that his broken body is incapable of following through the determination of his plucky spirit and when he succumbs to a heart attack he finds himself at a crossroads where he must decide whether or not to continue his futile pursuit of celebrity or make amends with those that he has alienated.
After his somewhat ambitious flirtation with the science fiction genre in THE FOUNTAIN, director Aronofsky returns to Earth and back to the emotional human drama of his earlier REQUIEM FOR A DREAM. Having fallen from grace in his own professional life, Rourke delivers a towering performance as Robinson; a man whose career trajectory is so close to the actor's own, the film is given a staggering level of poignancy.
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Rourke is indeed very good as a aging wrestler disintegrating before
our eyes. And there are some beautifully shot sequences.
But there's also a lot of hokum, especially in the failed relationship
with his daughter, and the stripper played by Marisa Tomei, who is
trapped in a similar downward spiral to Rourke, and may be his only
hope, simply doesn't have the depth to balance him.
For me, a good, solid movie, but not the masterpiece a lot of critics
claimed, at least on first viewing.
I'm a fan of Aronofsky's, but I found this the least brave and
compelling of his films.
our eyes. And there are some beautifully shot sequences.
But there's also a lot of hokum, especially in the failed relationship
with his daughter, and the stripper played by Marisa Tomei, who is
trapped in a similar downward spiral to Rourke, and may be his only
hope, simply doesn't have the depth to balance him.
For me, a good, solid movie, but not the masterpiece a lot of critics
claimed, at least on first viewing.
I'm a fan of Aronofsky's, but I found this the least brave and
compelling of his films.
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