Review of Warrior (2011) by Coco890 — 19 Sep 2011

I admit, I wasn't too thrilled about this movie going into this movie but I was willing to give it a chance. I felt the same way about The Fighter last year and ended up loving it. Let me tell you, I was so shocked how great this movie was.

It has the genres usual clichés but the movie used them so well and to its advantage that it felt fresh. Sure it's predictable in the end, but sometimes, in this case, it's not about the destination(the ending), it's the journey to get to the destination.

Even though this movie was 2 hours and 20 minutes it felt like 20 minutes, pretty fast journey I know, and that's a shame because I never wanted this movie to end. The characters are so great and well-developed that I felt for them throughout the movie, I cared about them, I felt their pain, and the amazing performances from the cast helped contribute to that.

Especially Tom Hardy, Joel Edgerton, and Nick Nolte who give outstanding performances. I will be so shocked if not one of them are nominated. Everything else about this movie is just fantastic and hell I even cried twice during the last act of the movie.

The action was gripping, the script was great, it was nicely shot especially during the fighting scenes, which I must warn you the camera does get a bit shaky but it's for a reason at least, and the score was just great it really added that extra dept to the scenes.

I am not a big sports movie fan but I loved this movie, so even if you don't like sports movie I can guarantee that most of you will love.