Guest Blogger: Alex Z2

The fighter is a great character driven movie directed by David O. Russell. The Fighter is a great true story that is one of a kind of the fighting world. The main character in this movie is named Mickey Ward “Mark Wahlberg” a boxer out of the low life living neighborhood with his family. Mickey has training his older brother Dickey Ward “Christian Eklund”. Mickey’s older brother is kind of well a big trouble maker he is doing drugs and is just a pathetic piece of crap. Dickey is never on time to the gym or Mickey’s fights. Mickey loves the sport of boxing but figures out real soon that his family is his enemy basically. Mickey’s family sets his fights up and they are always unfair. Until one day a big name trainer from Las Vegas tells him he can fight for him and make it big. Mickey turns down the offer at first and then Mickey and his family go down there and Mickey and dickey have to train hard for a series of fights so Mickey can have a shot at the world championship for his weight class. Mickey blows through a couple of the fights and now its time for the championship fight. Mark Wahlberg does not have a bad movie at all he always does a great job at what he does. I think if you love sports this is the best boxing movie of all time. You wouldn’t waste your money or time watching this movie even if you don’t like sports. It’s a great come together family movie also.