The Wrestler - Reviews

Like many great performances, it has an element of truth. Rourke himself was once young and glorious and made the big bucks.

The Raging Bull of wrestling movies? Oh, go on then.

A stunning career comeback from Mickey Rourke underpins Darren Aronofsky’s tragic sports drama.

...the movie feeds off Rourke, who plays a genuinely decent guy who never lets his dawning self-awareness interfere with his responsibility to give the fans a show.

...Rourke is the very soul of a modern movie actor, baring himself physically and emotionally in an effort to expose the soul of a man whose entire life is predicated on artifice...

...Aronofsky formår at få os til at se det poetiske i tragedien. Den grimme, smukke råhed i en gigants fald.

...Darren Aronofskys (Black Swan, Requiem for a Dream) bästa film och det beror på att karaktärerna är så oerhört mångdimensionella med starka identifierbara drag.