Movie review: The Wrestler.

Cast : Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood.






Director: Darren Aronofsky




To tell you the truth, I never liked watching wrestling because I always knew it was fake & it was meant to entertain void minds. I watched this movie on a recommendation & I'm glad I did.





The wrestler is a story of a professional wrestler, a husband, a father & a loner.





Mickey(randy) once a famous pro-wrestler is, now, after 20yrs a loner who has trouble paying his rent & with that he has health concerns too. Randy takes steroids and it results in a heart-attack after a match & the doc advises him not to take that stuff anymore & also quit his wrestling career as he feels his heart wont cope up with him.





Randy has a crush on a most-wanted stripper of a club that he frequently visits named Cassidy & he looks up to her for affection and care. Randy also has a daughter on whom he had walked out several years ago due to his career. Now, that Randy is lonely he visits his daughter & tells her that he had an heart-attack but she is furious with him & does not care for him now for he walked outta her life when she needed him the most. But later on, she succumbs & loves her father back.
The father-daughter relationship shown in the film is beautiful.








There a couple of very good scenes in the film lyk the wrestling match in which staple-guns were used is breath-taking & the scene in the final parts of the movie where Randy walks out furiously off the store where he works & calls his manager & tells him that he would lyk to take up wrestling again.








P.S. Worth a watch. Never really expected a big guy to act so well. Rated R.

movie review : Knight and Day.

Cast: Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz




Director: James Mangold




Tom cruise & Cameron Diaz -- what more could a director ask for. Both of 'em are still charming as were in Vanilla Sky.



Cruise plays a CIA agent, Roy Miller & Diaz play a regular girl, June who mixes herself in Cruise's affairs. Unnecessarily. The film lacks chemistry & this has made it very difficult to understand as to why Diaz accompanies Cruise to all the dangerous locations. Speaking f the locations , they're beautiful.



Although the films lacks chemistry between it's lead actors it makes up with the action sequences. My personal favorite is the one in which Cruise jumps from one car top to another on the freeway. Cruise still manages to keep the audiences glued to their seats when it comes to action sequence. However, he should seriously rethink before opting for Romantic-thriller kinda films. Not his cup-f-tea, I feel.






Cruise disappoints. Diaz disappoints. The film disappoints.







P.S. It's very important not to waste a talent lyk Tom Cruise's.