The Wrestler - DVD review

Can you smell what the Rourke is cooking?

The Wrestler - DVD. Home Cinema, DVD 0
Reviewer
Neil Queen
Review Date
29 May 2009
Price as reviewed
£19.99
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Our score

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Quick review

The good
Smart film-making, aided by a stunning and sympathetic performance from Rourke
The bad
Marisa Tomei as stripper Pam looks worryingly like Carol Vorderman. She’s sliding seductively down a pole, and I’m having thoughts of debt consolidation. Weird
Verdict
Entertaining, fresh, expertly crafted and as wry as it is moving, The Wrestler is a weighty tale of personal sacrifice that even haters of wrestling would be impressed by

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Comments

  • Mickey Rourke's fierce comeback on a hard-hitting story of the subworld of the very unsympathetic world of wrestling. Wonderfully co-ed by the ever beautiful Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood as his teenage daughter.
    A strange world for most of us as wrestling is coming back to England as a "new" thing of which none of us has a real momery of.
    The film lacks at time of momentum and therefore it all becomes "a bit trite" and "a bit of...well of course"
    Very good try form everyone but directional only 5/10
    Posted by Roraima, uk

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