çok akıllıca yapılmış bir film ama içi maalesef boş. başta anlatılmayan geçmişi, zamanla seyirciye tattırarak merakı üst seviyede tutuyor, izlerken sıkmıyor da. klişeleri görmezden gelinebilir ama hikayesi çok üstünkörü anlatılmış. dövüş sahnelerinin çekimi epey başarılı.

You know what the ending is, more or less, 20 minutes in to the movie. Good performances all around but suffers from trying to have too much plot for the amount of movie. That said, I think I might start watching MMA at some point...

Some great acting (especially considering the dialogue), decent direction and of course awesome fight scenes elevate a rather sloppy, predictable script (was this first draft or what?) into a surprisingly entertaining film. Forget that it tries to be serious, and just watch it as a dumb but rather fun fight film. And why didn't Brian Callen just comment the entire film?

Overly dramatic

For me this was this years "The Fighter." Yeah, I knew what was going to happen but I still enjoyed the ride. Nick Nolte's Oscar nomination wasn't deserved at all but he was decent in the role. All the scenes with Tommy were really badass, one of the coolest characters of the year.

Rocky for nothing-is-simple-anymore-times. Here Balboa is without his darker-but-we-like-them-anyway parts, which are now given to a Mr.T or a Drago-type killing machine thus making him more likeable. So deep down you root for the good guy in dire need but torn apart because you also don't want the other guy lose, because he is not that bad either, only avictim of circumstances, but also you know that he won't and shouldn't. A disgustingly preachy message indeed.

'I love you in a rear-naked-choke kind of way, Tommy!'. This one really got on my nerves. Story is unbearably bad. It must have some of the most blatant emotional manipulation in the recent years. Around 20 minutes in I had this strange confusion, where I couldn't believe someone would actually create story like this NOT trying to mock similar films. I'm very shocked there was no terminal cancer subplot in this movie.

Routine wrestling (read: boxing) drama is marked by a devastating performance by Nolte as broken down father looking for redemption, which ranks with the finest performances he has ever given. Edgerton and Hardy both fine in the lead, but by keeping their characters seperated until almost the end, the film misses the opportunity to bring real fire to the climactic bout. Doesn't help that last year's THE FIGHTER covered similar territory far more successfully.

Edgerton and the freakishly big machine that is Hardy crowned with an oscar worthy performance by Nolte gives you one hell of a movie. A movie about brotherhood, broken homes, broken promises and never giving up.

Absolutely stunning. I was skeptical about watching as underdog fighting films set in gritty cities are hardly rare, but this really, really blew me away. The plot, the acting, the score, it all comes together so well, and no matter how predictable the whole thing may appear, you will still have your breath taken away. The fight scenes are great too. Overall, this has been one of my favourite films of recent years. Well and truly worth your time!

Good, but maybe a tad overrated. It really oversimplifies the sport of MMA, but I guess this movie's not really about fighting is it? It's about a hugely dysfunctional family. So dysfunctional, in fact, that they barely share the screen together. These are extremely flawed people, but you cheer for them based on the moments in which they share their good intentions.

The underdog sports story is older than the Bible and I couldn't care less about MMA. Additionally, the comparisons to last year's 'The Fighter' are unavoidable (brothers, addiction, fighting, etc). Yet somehow, despite all the genre cliches and sentimental predictability, the story of these brothers and their tormented father (an incredible Nolte) captivated me right up to the ending that I already knew was coming. Like 'The Fighter,' it's the strong performances that makes this compelling.

O'Connor's nicely done MMA film plays by the rules of other emotional sports dramas, and I thought it would be completely blunt, but, wow, this one really works. Warrior has the broken soul soul of a flawed father (Nolte is immense), the desperate spirit of a family man and the strenght of a soldier: among the clashes set in the cage and in the hearts of these three men, there is an intense dispute of mixed feelings, violent conflicts and delayed talks. Good surprise.

As camp as those ultra-American sports films from the late '80s early '90s, but surrounded by an air of October-release Oscar-baitory seriousness. Totally bland.

I'm almost certain I've seen this film multiple times before.

Watching the trailer I expected a very cliché movie. It still has some clichés like almost every other sportsfilm or family-centered film has, but that didn't bother me at all. And that's all thanks to Tom Hardy who portrays a badass fighting machine with emotional problems and his so called brother Joel Edgerton who puts down a very sympathetic character. Because of the use of shaky and very close shots it feels you are in the cage with the figthers. One of my favorites of 2011!

Goofy as hell but somehow tries to take itself seriously despite having one of the most childish plots I have ever seen. Somehow it tricked others into taking it seriously too, which is a damning indictment of humanity. It's an alright, lowbrow fighting/sports movie on par with a typical Van Damme or sports underdog film that you see every few years. Nothing better than that.

#12#, reviews!, story, T Hardy/4-3

tom hardy was great and nick nolte wasnt bad either, but the MMA part of the movie just sucked

Damn, this movie is awesome. Gripping like Rocky and dramatic like Raging Bull. In my mind even better than "The Fighter". A must see and maybe one of 2011 best Hollywood flicks.

It's got some good acting, but the story is ridiculously predictable. It leaves several questions unanswered, like why the two brothers hate Nick Nolte's character so severely, and the ending was pretty sudden and short, but these flaws don't stop it from being good overall.

Grossly overrated face-punchin' movie.

cheese, but good cheese.

"one fights for his family, the other for his country" - the minute the second story was thrown in to the mix you knew what was going to happen. Boring, melodramatic, pahtos-ridden bullshit with only a very decent performance by Nolte to hold it together.

What the fuck, what a retarded ending.

While this is a "boxing" film, really, a family drama involving two brothers and their father lie at the heart of the film. Had the filmmakers focused on this aspect and developed better, this couldn't have been a good film.(probable score: 69)

The acting is pretty great, and the fight scenes are predictably exciting. Still, this ends up feeling like a very unnecesary project.

We’ve all seen this type of underdog film countless times. There’s not really anything new or original in this one. None of the performances were noteworthy, except for Nick Nolte’s. The score was a bit too uplifting; it became obnoxious. But you know what? I liked it. This kind of story still works. It’s really difficult not to cheer for the characters. I did think the ending was terrible though. Oh, and Tom Hardy was beyond wildly unattractive in this movie.

Really impressive film, for the most part. The three main actors, Hardy, Nolte and Edgerton deliver superb performances, and the fight scenes are really exciting to watch and well filmed. That said it gets pretty cliche and the final few minutes of the film get so cliche you'll want to roll your eyes more than physically possible. Shame because up until that point it's a pretty good movie.

This film tries to combine the serious dramatic side of "The Fighter" with over-the-top gratuitous fights scenes à la "Rocky". It succeeds with the latter but not the former. The climactic action scenes are shot, edited and scored in a way that makes them thoroughly rousing. But the earlier drama scenes are totally forgettable, badly scripted and acted. This film does nothing new and everything is a cliché, or worse, blatant plagiarism. The ending almost justifies that, but not quite.

It shouldn't be good...it really shouldn't....but somehow it is anyway.