Mood: down
The best part of the wrestler was Mickey Rourke's performance. He reached out to his disaffected daughter and his personal stripper in order to develop a real relationship with each one. However, it seemed that the only meaningful relationship that "Randy Ram Robinson "(i.e. Rourke) had was with the wrestling audience.
This was where the story went off the rails.
Wrestling was killing Randy because his heart couldn't take it anymore. He tried to find redemption with his daughter and a stripper friend, but they rejected him. The only alternative was to wrestle until it killed him.
I didn't like this message. The story became a real downer three quarter of the way through when wrestling became the only thing that Randy could relate to. Two and half stars. There's more meaningful things in life besides wrestling.
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