Dave Hanratty

So Tom Hardy is a former US veteran soldier who is like sparring in a gym and there's this MMA star who needs a sparring partner in short notice.

They're like, hey, hey, guy over there, you come in, we'll knock you around.

Tom Hardy comes in, knocks the crap out of him, it goes viral.

All of a sudden he's entered into this like elimination MMA tournament.

Also entered in is his estranged brother, Joel Egerton, who's a science teacher by day, MMA fighter by night.

And then their estranged father, an alcoholic Irish kind of American, Nick Nolte, playing this role, is coaching Tom Hardy.

They fight their way into the final.

And it's just... Okay.

It's cinematic.

But what it is, is it was... Okay.

It's actually really good.

Are there well-developed characters?

Oh, Joe, are there well-developed characters?

Unbelievable.

I look at this and I see cliche after cliche after cliche.

Well, no.

True.

However, this is the film that made it socially acceptable for a lot of tough men to go to the cinema and have a cry.

and it was proper you could like you could hear men sobbing you're overestimating no I'm serious it's cultural importance I swear I know there's people listening right now I know there are email in it's testament to Joel Edgerton's machismo that I actually found it believable that he could go toe to toe with Tom Hardy and give him a bit of a hiding Tom Hardy with his real tattoos as well rare chance to see those that's a very good one actually that's a modern one it's on Netflix I believe right now is it I think it is

Lads, I like emotion in my movies.