Although Tommy resents his father, he seeks his help in training for a major fighting tournament deemed "the Superbowl of MMA." This is the first time that Paddy has seen Tommy since then. When the violence from his drunken and abusive father became too much, he and his mother ran as far as they could. The film opens as Paddy Conlon (Nick Nolte) comes home from an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting one night to find his son Tommy sitting on the front steps of his house. Because the majority of their story is shrouded in a slowly-unraveling mystery, I'll keep it vague. Warriorrevolves around a father and his two sons. Thankfully, Warrior is one of those films.īy definition, Warrioris a sports film – but there's a lot more going on than just ultimate fighting (a.k.a.
However, every once in a while, a strong, well-written sports film will offer more than the usual formula. I don’t care if it's "Based on a True Story" or not, sports movies usually bore me to death. Even though the character or team make this huge change for the good, there are only three possible outcomes to the story: they never make it to big game, but it's okay because they’re better people now they make it and lose, but again it’s okay because they're better people or they make it and win, which happens more often than not. A flawed character or team of characters always have to make a big change that cleans up one fatal flaw in order to make it to a single big game.
I can't get past the fact that they're all so similar.
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