If there’s was one person in Hollywood you could choose to train you in a technique of martial arts who would it be? I’d go for Jet Li, Jackie Chan, or Jason Statham, but director Gavin O’Connor prefers his mentors more on the weathered side. According to FirstShowing, O’Connor has cast Nick Nolte as the lead in his MMA centered film, Warrior. Nolte will play “an ex-Vietnam vet boxer-turned-steel mill worker whose family was torn apart by his alcoholism.” Sounds like a role he was born to play.

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The problem with Pride and Glory isn’t that it’s bad, it’s just nothing new or exceptional. If you’re going to do something that we’ve seen before, find a new edge, a new perspective, and new way to shoot it. Something. Gavin O’Connor just brings us another complex cop film that tries to use plot twists and violence to cover up for it’s otherwise dull story. Don’t get me wrong. I think the acting in the film was anything but dull. All of the actors turned in amazing performances. Colin Farrell, Edward Norton, and Jon Voight bring a brooding intensity to the film, that may make the film what it is. Without this cast, I probably would have been slurping down a large drink just for an excuse to go to the bathroom.

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