Warrior was a film that I thought about for a long time after I saw it. It's a sports film that focusses heavily on what it means to be family and the scars that the past can leave. It hits these notes so well that the actual "sports" moments felt weak in comparison, which was my only real gripe with the film.
The performances of the three main characters is what really drives the film. Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton play two brothers who must confront their family's dark past when they both enter the same mixed martial arts tournament. With them is their alcoholic father played by Nick Nolte.
Nolte's performance is really something special here and is what you will find yourself thinking about once the film is finished. He is a broken pathetic yet surprisingly sympathetic man who really demands your attention in every scene that he is in.
Warrior is not a perfect film by any means but it has some really interesting things going for it along with deep characters and emotional suspense at the core.
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