The Wrestler review

Wow. I have just come back from watching this film and I am glad that I saw it. I thought it was worth every dollar I spent at the cinema. Mickey Rourke portrays the wrestler great! I think the whole setting for the movie was great. I would advise if you have younger children that this is most defiantly NOT the film for you. There are strippers, sex and mild reference to drugs so not really suitable.
Mickey Rourke's character Randy "The Ram" Robinson, has been, once in his life, a very successful wrestler. Working the main stages, everywhere. Nowdays he works at high school gyms performing for less the stardom audiences. He has a daughter, played by Evan Rachel Wood, who for a brief moment considers him worthy of coming back into her life after abandoning her a long time ago.
After performing a show one night, Randy goes to have a shower. He stops. And as the viewer watches, suffers a heart attack. Randy is told by a doctor that he will never be able to wrestle again because of the strain on his heart. Randy must learn to deal with that but because that is his life, he finds it difficult to deal with. This is where he starts to see his daughter at the advice of his love interest (Marisa Tomei). Things start going downhill as he stuffs up with both of them. He decides, after someone recognizes him at the supermarket he works, to get back into wrestling as that is what makes him, well, him. The end of the movie finishes a bit quick in my opinion but maybe thats just me.

Honestly, I do love this movie. I am passionate about wrestling, as many people may be aware, and when I first heard about this movie, I thought "I really want to go and see this". This is a movie that I think shows what life is like for some wrestlers. It's not all Wrestlemania hype. It's like with anything, a select few have what it takes to be great. Mickey Rourke, as I say, done a fantastic job at portraying Randy and I congratulate him on being able to pull it off. Congrats on a fantastic movie

*****
5 Stars from me!