小龙喜欢打拳与人有约骠叔是他的经纪常常出谋划策终与一黑老大起了冲突
杰姬·贾斯蒂斯哈莉·贝瑞饰是一名综合格斗选手但她不光彩地退出了这项运动在那场格斗之后的数年里她一直不太走运终日在愤恨和懊悔中度过最后被经纪人兼男友德西阿丹·坎托饰劝去参加一场残酷的地下格斗并吸引了格斗联盟组织者沙米尔·安德森饰的注意他承诺会让杰姬重回八角笼但当曼尼小丹尼·博伊德饰出现在她家门口时她将注定踏上一条冷暖自知的救赎之路曼尼是她的儿子生下来没多久就被她放弃了 逆转擂台是奥斯卡金像奖得主哈莉·贝瑞的导演处女作主演阵容包括安德莱内·列诺斯希拉·阿蒂姆瓦伦缇娜·舍甫琴科和斯蒂芬·麦金利·亨德森该故事讲述了一名格斗选手的励志之旅在所有人都认为杰姬已被淘汰出局时她在赛场内外都重新找回了自己的力量
Fraught with over obvious symbolism, Hartley#39;s early feature is nonetheless a joy to watch Hal here shows us his uncanny ability to cast his characters perfectly came early in his career Adrienne Shelley is a near perfect foil to herself, equal parts annoying teen burgeoning in her sexuality though using sex for several years; obsessed with doom and inspired by idealism gone wrong she is deceptively – and simultaneously – complex and simple Her Audrey inspires so many levels of symbolism it is almost embarrassingly rich eg, her modeling career beginning with photos of her foot – culminating her doing nude but unseen work; Manhattan move; Europe trip; her stealing, then sleeping with the mechanics wrench, etc As Josh, Robert Burke gives an absolutely masterful performance A reformed prisoner/penitent he returns to his home town to face down past demons, accept his lot and begin a new life Dressed in black, and repeatedly mistaken for a priest, he corrects everyone quot;I#39;m a mechanicquot;, yet the symbolism is rich he abstains from alcohol, he practices celibacy is, in fact a virgin, and seemingly has taken on vows of poverty, and humility as well The humility seems hardest to swallow seeming, at times, almost false, a pretense Yet, as we learn more of Josh we see genuineness in his modesty, that his humility is indeed earnest and believable What seems ironic is the character is fairly forthright in his simplicity, yet so richly drawn it becomes the viewer who wants to make him out as more than what he actually is A fascinatingly written character, perfectly played The scene between Josh and Jane a wonderful, young Edie Falco quot;You need a woman not a girlquot; is hilarious real But Hartley can#39;t leave it as such and his trick, having the actors repeat the dialogue overandover becomes frustratingly quot;artyquot; and annoying until again it becomes hilarious What a terrific sense of bizarre reality this lends the film like kids in a perpetual quot;am notquot;/quot;are tooquot; argument Hartley#39;s weaves all of a small neighborhood#39;s idiosyncrasies into a tapestry of seeming stereotypes but which delves far beneath the surface, the catalyst being that everyone believes they know what the quot;unbelievable truthquot; of the title is, yet no two people can agree including our hero on what exactly that truth is A wonderful little movie with some big ideas
