The youngest son of an alcoholic former boxer returns home, where he's trained by his father for competition in a mixed martial arts tournament -- a path that puts the fighter on a collision corner with his older brother.
The film devolves into seemingly endless brutal fight scenes, ultimately offering a dubious ‘violence solves all’ message that makes no sense and, ironically, creates little impact.
A tougher, meaner animal than close cousin The Fighter, with Hardy, Edgerton and Nolte at their pugnacious, heart-wrenching best. Shame O’Connor diluted the pay-off.
It hardly rewrites the rulebook, but Warrior is a powerful, moving and brilliant sports-pic-cum-family drama. Like The Fighter, but with kicking.
It's a picture that strains for near-Biblical resonance, and sure; it feels longer than Psalm 119, but despite pummelling away for two hours, this boils down to a sulky Cain who just needs a hug from Abel.
Well-staged...also too long.
Sickly sentimental, but the barnstorming fight scenes will leave you counting stars.
Familiar emotional territory is covered in a picture that doesn’t know when to quit while it’s ahead, but the fight scenes are Raging Bull impressive.
Tom Hardy's physicality in this mixed martial arts film...is something to behold.
You don't need an MA in screenwriting to see where this one is heading.
Fight flick unable to escape cliche.
The atmosphere of juvenile machismo is fairly harmless; the 140-minute running time, however, is pure sadism.
Not a knockout but well worth a few rounds.
Ridiculous and overwrought as it sounds, Hardy and Edgerton attack the warring siblings storyline with enough grace and credibility to ensure the films emotional blows feel as authentic as the physical ones look.
It's a crude, populist epic that makes the audience feel they're taking a beating in the chain-link cage with the fighters.
Warrior is a hokey underdog melodrama from Round One, but it seems real enough, partly due to the shaky, fuzzy cinematography, and partly due to the actors' commitment to their roles.
Can Warrior pack a punch in the UK?
General release. Check local listings for show times.