Warrior
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(Running time: 139 Minutes) Rated PG-13
Starring Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte
I was expecting this mixed martial arts film to be all about fighting and totally boring. I was pleasantly surprised. The film is mostly about the relationships between two young men and their formerly drunken and abusive father (Nolte). Tommy (Hardy) left his father and went with his mother when he was young. He has a chip on his shoulder a mile wide and secrets he’s keeping. Brendan (Edgerton), the older brother, stayed with his father and found a serious relationship at sixteen. He married the woman and now has two kids of his own.
Neither boy can forgive his father nor trust him and Tommy feels a great deal of anger against his brother as well. The drama unfolds in other ways as Brendan, an upstanding guy, now a physics teacher but once a mixed martials fighter professionally runs into financial difficulty. Tommy returns to get trained by his dad to win a big fight for private reasons.
While both brothers beating all opponents and ending the movie by meeting in the cage to fight each other may not be realistic, it is symbolic. This is a dark drama of serious human mistakes and their ramifications, forgiveness and familial love. There is tons of violence, including men’s faces being beaten. There is some bad language but no sex. Warrior should be fine for kids 13 or 12 and up who can understand all sides of the issues. Note: There are few famous names associated with this movie but the writing and acting were superb.
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