Honest opinion? Properly adapted this would make an excellent stage play.I already hate myself for liking this movie. It's a guy movie to end all guy movies, but I loved it. I'm usually partial to spoofs and prissy, intellectual films. Strange, but Mrs. Havarti loved it, too.
The premise of the story is outrageous. But, hey, it is a movie afterall. I've gotten to the point where I know what I'm getting into with a blockbuster picture. Why expect something good? Any amount of imagination in a plot point is a fairly impressive display.
I'm not a spoiler: read someone else if you want to know the end. I will tell you this: the speech of the dying warrior •near• the end is handled beautifully. It tugs at the man-beast inside us. This surging wave of cajone-fuel has little place in the first world. Sports is about all we have left of it.
Personally, I would have loved to have been in this movie. My boy-relatives would have peed their pants to see Uncle Cwis kicking some ass. But the glorification wasn't exactly the violence, for a change. It was about the fight in a broader sense. It was about learning something new. It was about the clan. It was a fun show about sticking together when it gets "impossible."Pan it if you want, but it didn't suck. Bring beer and poker buddies.
If you like it or not, watch it with a nephew.
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