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the film is about Randy "The Ram" Robinson he is a wrestler adored by many people. At the age of 50 he still works in the independant wrestling circuit. His lover Cassidy works as a stripper. Randy tries to build his relationship with his angry daughter he abondend. After a heart attack hes told to stop wrestling. How can he, it's all hes ever known. Life outside the ring is more dangerous than in it. This film is a heart wrenching tale of a wrestler and there were many occasions i had to reach for a tissue. The film is fantastic and emotional. It really hits you and you get drawn to the character. He's such a great actor and to be honest i don't think they could of found a better actor to play this. Im so glad he won a Golden globe and BAFTA award for playing Randy.
If it was a comedy, this would star Will Ferrell in a beefcake fat-suit with other wiseacre comics playing his various wrestler comrade-opponents, looking on blankly while Will attempts his delusional comeback in the ring. But it's deadly serious, and Mickey Rourke - famously once a contender in the marginally more credible world of boxing - is sublimely cast. Something about this gutsy, heartfelt drama from screenwriter Robert D Siegel and director Darren Aronofsky alchemises Rourke's conceit into a terrifically engaging, likable and even vulnerable performance. Happily for them both, Aronofsky appears to have caught the 52-year-old Rourke at just the right time with just the right role. This film won the Golden Lion at last year's Venice film festival, and it's an exhilarating victory for the director after his dreadfully limp and overblown fantasy The Fountain. And for all his grotesque appearance in the film, Rourke plays something he has not been much known for in his acting career: a human being.Read full review
This was a great film to watch. It follows the real life of a wrestler in and out of the ring. It was full of ups and downs, nice happy bits and then grim bits when real life hit home. We've watched it twice now and each time it just gets better as you understand the subtleties of the story more insightfully. The first time round the film seems very sad, but think about it, watch it again, and you realise that this was the only way that it could go. The wrestler had to do what he did because he was home, he knew where he did and didn't belong and finally he found peace.(Hope I'm not giving the game away too much.) An excellent film, will no doubt watch it many more times. Definitely worth watching, but be prepared to really focus on the subtle interplays between people and get into Mickey Rourke's mind and it will transform into a very clever, sad and sweet film all at the same time. Beware that it does take some watching, it's not a very relaxing film if you really want to understand the story - but it's definitely worth it! Top film!Read full review
Moving tale of a wrestler well past his sell-by date who battles on because that's all he knows. Spurned by his neglected daughter and kept at arm's length by a woman he feels attracted to, his limbs swathed in support bandages and his head messed up by a life in the ring, he gamely takes on one fight too many. Mickey Rourke gives a towering performance as the tragic wrestler.
Darren Aronofsky directs this searing drama about a past-his-prime wrestler who tries to regain his earlier fame. Mickey Rourke (ANGEL HEART, SIN CITY) continues a career revival of his own as the fighter, while Oscar winner Marisa Tomei (IN THE BEDROOM, MY COUSIN VINNY) and Evan Rachel Wood (THIRTEEN, DOWN IN THE VALLEY) co-star. Rourke is Randy 'The Ram' Robinson, a one-time superstar of professional wrestling who's down on his luck, estranged from his teenage daughter (Wood) and clinging onto the remains of his career by appearing in brutally violent bouts that barely pay him enough to make the rent on his trailer park home. It soon becomes clear that his broken body is incapable of following through the determination of his plucky spirit and when he succumbs to a heart attack he finds himself at a crossroads where he must decide whether or not to continue his futile pursuit of celebrity or make amends with those that he has alienated. After his somewhat ambitious flirtation with the science fiction genre in THE FOUNTAIN, director Aronofsky returns to Earth and back to the emotional human drama of his earlier REQUIEM FOR A DREAM. Having fallen from grace in his own professional life, Rourke delivers a towering performance as Robinson; a man whose career trajectory is so close to the actor's own, the film is given a staggering level of poignancy.Read full review
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