warrior review

warriors is a action drama based in the world of UFC (ultimate fight champion ships) which is the best league in the world for mixed matial artist's set in 2011 which stars tom hard and Joel Edgerton as the two main protagonists of the film, it was directed and written by Gavin O Conner who has also done pride and glory (a film about police corruption and when your own brother is apart of the corruption) and tumbleweeds (a film about a mother and daughter running from town to town escaping old relationships) and was produced by lionsgate.

The film has themes of family/loss of family and what you do when you lose someone close to you its also has themes of doing your best to survive the system and dealing with the cards your dealt and also the most potent ones are forgiveness and overcoming expectations and give your all to your future




The film is about the Conlon brothers Tommey and Brendon and as such theses two characters brothers as the may be are polar oppisties which is quickly established and also  the difference in the way they fight in the film so given this, they will be getting there own section to establish motive, personality and attitude to what they do but the main thing is the relationship of the two.

In the world of warrior it is exactly the same as the real world but 3 years ago as there is a war going on for oil in iraq and people in america are still loving the entertainment of sport and by far the most viloent of them all is UFC which is a more viloent version of boxing and judo and other sports.
"When you were younger you wanted to know who was the toughest kid on the block was. well i want to know who the strongest man in the world is" is the idea behind SPARTA the biggest MMA/UFC competition ever with a chance to win 5 million winner takes all prize pool with no entry fee. The rules fair fighting, to listen to the ref, win can be by tap/pin/knock out which is more common than you might think. and there we have it the stage is set now "LETS GO TO WAR".

Lets start with Brendon (played by Joel Edgerton). Brendon is a ex UFC fighter and now a family man physics teacher with two little girls the youngest of the two Rosie has a heart condition and even though his wife Tess (played by Jennifer Morrison) has 3 jobs between them they are struggling to pay for the house and the bank is threatening to take there house away after they are the ones who suggested the different financial moves and said that was most likely the best move for them was the one that is most expensive and better the bank more than them but after Brendon shows up to work one day after getting a small amount of money from winning a few fights in a car park he is suspended from school and without him working the bank will take the house so he signs up for the Sparta competition is the hope to win the 5 million dollar prize money to save his kid his house and maintain his life he has built for himself.
in the ring Brendon is a technical master for what he lacks in full out aggresion (which is most likely a trait for being a teacher for what seems like a long time) he makes up for endurance and skill when it comes to locks and countering. I thought of him as the worlds most smartest and longest lasting punching bag that punches back all his victorys we see are by tap out. he even made tap out the favoirte in the competition Coba this guy is the underdog of all underdogs which makes you wanna cheer for him even more so this is what he does. (its better if the video is muted)

his brother on the other hand is a different story as I said these guys are polar opposites.
Tommy is an ex us marine he is a big ball of aggresion and hate but there is also a mysteriousness about him where no matter how much people try they cannot find any information on this guy. what is later found out that Tommy went MIA after losing his best friend in the iraq and on the way back to the states he saves a tank from drowning makeing him a war hero and he has also made a promise to his best friend widdow that he would look after her which is his goal. Tommy has no job, he is a alcholic and a gambler but despite all this he is a warrior till the end from start to finish he fights to earn what he wants he takes no freebees.
he is a vicuous fighter and is also seen as a old viking warrior who fought in 1400 battles without losing but tommy in not this as he has an equal while warrior did not, his only equal seeming to be his brother rounds not lasting more than one round he will dominate anyone who enters the ring with then get up and walk out the ring no walkout/walk in music and will only acknowledge fellow marines within the crowd here is a little of the absolute destruction this guy can do.

the relationship between these two brothers makes family's that argue and bascilly cant say two words without arguing look like a pre-woman rights video of what the perfect family should be but they do beilive in one thing there farther (played by Nick Nolte) is useless and that he is a waste of space.
The farther and mother split up and is what sparks the rivalry between Tommy and Brendon as Tommy went with there mother to look after her and Brendan stayed with there farther to finally show him attention and to learn how to fight but now Tommy no longer sees Brendon and his farther as family as there mother died and they didn't find out until a couple months later.

the film as a whole is a big load of awsome its a brilliant peace of cinema which if feel so bad that i didnt find out about it until recently which was a damn shame as this has quickly become one of my favorite films. the cinmeatography is beautiful the music is divine but if there was one complant i wish we saw what happens after the final fight what they did with the money or what have you but i gueses i cant get it all oh well thank you for reading this and I tell you go give this film a watch asap.