In a nutshell: Between The Rock and a Hard Place.
Seconds out on Aronofsky’s latest, and already big Mickey Rourke is on the ropes. An opening montage of posters and pics shows us he used ta be a contender, but since ‘That Cobain pussy’ came along and ruined music in the 90s, he’s busy getting thrown out of his trailer (Incidentally, is trailer living really that bad? I saw some once and they were pretty big, some even had hot tubs…) and getting moaned at by his pencil neck boss, while former arch rival ‘The Ayatollah’ makes a good living selling used cars. Rather than the “over the hill champion/underdog makes good” flick you might be expecting, we get a nicely drawn character piece, watching ageing fighter Randy ‘The Ram’ Robinson getting back in the ring while his body (and his life) slowly crumble around him.
