Warrior

Warrior 

Rating 8.5 out of 10

Usually when a movie gets a rating on rottentomatoes.com of 80% or better it throws up all kinds of red flags for me.  Movie reviewers are a strange bunch (I'm proof enough of that) and usually when that many agree on a movie there is something wrong with it.  Try to follow my logic?  With the 83% rating I was in no hurry to see this.

My movie buddy Ted and son Danny both gave it a hearty thumbs up so off to the NCG theater I went.  Rottentomatoes.com absolutely got it right this time!  This is a great movie.  Definite top ten on my list.

I do understand this movie can be a hard sell.  I can tell you this is not a movie about MMA (mixed martial arts) fighting.  This is a movie with a good story that happens to have MMA in it.  The acting overall is very good.  The movie gets close to the line of hokey sports cliches yet never crosses.

Two brothers are separated by divorce in their teen years.  The divorce is mostly caused by the drunken father played by Nick Nolte.  Nolte hasn't been in a good movie in a while but I feel he should get an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor.  Both brothers are very bitter toward the father even though he has given up drinking and is making an attempt to clean up his life.  One brother goes into the Marines.  The other becomes a school teacher that has fallen on hard times with a sick daughter.

Both brothers end up in a big MMA tournament that has a $5 million winner take all purse.  If you have seen the trailer you know they fight each other in the finals.  Don't let the violence scare you away from this movie.  There is some action but for the most part it's done tastefully.

This is a very good movie folks.  Go see it.