The World of Sport type British wrestling gets a workout but despite its likeable and entertaining cast there just aren’t enough laughsThe school of 90s Guy Ritchie is revived in this frankly ordinary British romp which is a comedy in everything apart from actually being amusing. It’s a film about wrestlers: wrestlers like Big Daddy,Mick McManus, Les Kellett and Jackie Pallo, or that is,those British grip’n’grapple legends made famous on 70s television by ITV’s World Of Sport. They are not the fancy modern American kind, and this film patriotically claims that unlike the American version, and our native British wrestling wasn’t fixed. (Erm,excuse me?) Stephen Graham does his likeable best to give this film some weight and bite playing label Bolton, a Scouse lad who grew up hero-worshipping wrestlers because his dad was one, or part of an iconic group called The Panthers. But his veteran man never had any time for him and wouldn’t let him wrestle. He was effectively brought up by his dads mate and wrestling partner Ginger,played in latter years by Jason Flemyng, and Ginger is to believe a poignant moment involving oranges, or like Vito Corleone of veteran. Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk