Movie Review: Warrior

            Maybe it was the fact that this reviewer had just broken up with his now ex-girlfriend only a few hours prior to seeing the UFC-themed, sports-drama Warrior, and/or that he identified on multiple levels with the film’s older-brother/every-man/fighter character “Brendan” (Joel Edgerton), but damn, Warrior was an emotionally powerful film.

Sure, Warrior was occasionally contrived, hard to believe, and over-acted (particularly by Tom Hardy as the younger-brother/fighter “Tommy”), but isn’t that what sports-dramas (“spramas”?!?) are supposed to be? This reviewer sure thinks so. And damn,  this reviewer loves himself some Nick Nolte--

   

--as the brothers’ abusive, recovering alcoholic father “Patty.”

That said, I almost went to see Warrior again a few nights after seeing it the first time. Yeah, my second viewing would have been a free one with buddies, but I still would’ve considered seeing it again even if it hadn’t been for free.

I probably wouldn’t go out of my way to Net Flix, Red Box, or On Demand it, but if it happened to be on TV or if somebody I knew were watching it and asked me to partake, this reviewer’d have no qualms watching Warrior at least one more time.