Warrior

Family is worth fighting for.

This highly-rated sports drama is set against the backdrop of Mixed Martial Arts, but like Million Dollar Baby, the real story is about what happens outside the ring. Two brothers have drifted apart from each other and their alcoholic father. One became a soldier, the other a teacher. However financial circumstances force both of them to resort to fighting for a living, aiming to win a five million dollar MMA competition. The soldier ropes in his dad, now sober, to train him, while the school teacher, since fired, calls on an old friend. As the plot will have it, the two brothers end up in the ring facing each other in the final fight for the championship.

141 minutes.
No persons under 13 (Language, Violence).
Action, Drama, Sports.

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

Don't kill each other...

Credits

Cast	Joel Edgerton, Tom Hardy, Nick Nolte, Jennifer Morrison, Frank Grillo, Kevin Dunn, Maximiliano Hernández, Bryan Callen
Director	Gavin O'Connor
Screenplay	Gavin O'Connor, Anthony Tambakis, Cliff Dorfman
Music	Mark Isham
Cinematography	Masanobu Takayanagi
Editing	Sean Albertson, Matt Chesse, John Gilroy, Aaron Marshall
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, DTS
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2011
Produced by	Mimran Schur Pictures, Lionsgate, Solaris

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Drama
Language	Strong
Nudity	None
Sex	Brief kissing
Violence	Moderate to strong (mixed martial arts fights)
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	Brief
Drug abuse	Brief usage
Comments	None
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith Sibling rivalry really never ends	15
Die Burger Paul Boekkooi Broers pak mekaar in die bokskryt	10
Cape Times Kirk Honeycutt It's not about winning	15
Box Office Kate Erbland The film is capable of captivating a large and mixed audience that will come for the striking in-ring fights, but will tell others to buy a ticket and take the pulse of the film's unbelievable heart.	15
ReelViews James Berardinelli Warrior will undoubtedly be compared in many quarters to The Fighter, but this is in some ways a more powerful and disturbing motion picture. It offers a catharsis but there's something bittersweet about the way in which Warrior concludes.	18
ScreenIt C. Fuchs A pure cinematic crowd pleaser if there ever was one, Warrior goes the distance, comes out as a champ, and is something of a Rocky for this generation.	15
Metacritic.com 35 critics	14
Rottentomatoes critics 147 critics	14
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Warrior relies on many of the clichés that critics of the genre love to mock -- and it transcends them with gripping action, powerful acting, and heart.	17
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	14
Movie Review Intelligence 44 critics	14
What the People say
Internet 6040 Netizens Not just for fight fans...	17
Average .. 74%	15