I recently saw the movie Warrior. It was about two men that join a fighting competition for a big prize of 5 million dollars. The twist is that these two men are brothers that don't talk anymore because they're angry at each other for what has happened in the past. They also don't talk to their used-to-be alcoholic father who abandoned them when they were young. A lot of emotional drama throughout because one of the brothers, Brendan (Joel Edgarton) needs the money or else he is going bankrupt. The other brother, Tommy (Tom Hardy) is a war hero who wants to help his dead best friends family. Their paths finaly collide at the end when it turns out that they are both in the final match.
I'd have to give this movie 3 out of 5 stars. The plot had potential but the director didn't work well with it. Even though it was a 2 hour and 20 minute movie, the story seemed rushed and it felt like there was no screen time for when the brothers were training. This movie reminds me of The Fighter and the Rocky movies because these are all fighting movies with a dramatic backstory. But what you didn't feel in Warrior was the connection to these characters. The best performance in this movie was done by Nick Nolte, the father. If everyone in the film acted as well as he did, i would have definitely felt a connection, but it just didn't seem real to me.
The movie used a lot of medium shots and close shots. For the fighting sequences I was surprised they didn't use more full shots, but their cinamatography worked. The training montage was interesting because there were many boxes on the screen that showed both brothers trainign simultaneously. There were very few close shots, which adds drama. And personally, I thought the music was a little dull and didn't do the correct job of making it dramatic.
I agree with what you said about how the story seemed rushed. I felt that even though the movie was a long one, I never really got to know the characters as well as I could have. It seemed like there was a lot of unnecessary dialogue followed by the entire tournament scene at the end. However, I was very happy with the casting of this movie because I really felt as though the actors really fit the roles they were playing. I agree with your rating of three out of five stars for this movie because I really don't think that it lived up to what it could have been.
I agree with what you said about how the story seemed rushed. I felt that even though the movie was a long one, I never really got to know the characters as well as I could have. It seemed like there was a lot of unnecessary dialogue followed by the entire tournament scene at the end. However, I was very happy with the casting of this movie because I really felt as though the actors really fit the roles they were playing. I agree with your rating of three out of five stars for this movie because I really don't think that it lived up to what it could have been.
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