Mickey Rourke, yeah, you remember him. The actor with a bad boy almost good looking tough looks and soulful talents that made everyone think Deniro or Paccino. Then 9 1/2 Weeks with Kim Bassinger and things started going south and later a movie with vanDam before he slipped into obscurity.
The Wrestler is Mickey Rourke's come back movie and what a good job he did. The movie is a tough one. Roughly made, it is a raw film about a raw subject. The story follows Randy the Ram, a washed up wrestler that is facing his mortality. Randy realizes that fame and fortune are as temporary as they are elusive; what he has in life now is a broken body and family. He tries to find something more than temporary comfort in the arms of a stripper before he realizes that he is a wrestler and the only whore that can comfort him is a sweating crowd yelling for blood. You can almost feel Mickey Rourke exorcising his own personal demons in this movie. And Rourke has more than his own fair share of personal demons.
Well worth your dollars and better to see on the big screen that it will be at home. In the darkened theater you are right there with Randy the Ram, feeling his pain and the raw cold of a New Jersey winter. His nomination for the Academy Award was well deserved. Although Rourke may have found redemption in the nomination, regrets of what could have been coat the surface making it a bittersweet recognition.
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