- Sensibility: This true story struggles to be understood due to confusing time shifts and some rather poor editing. A relationship rekindling feels very odd and all of his training choices and travel are not displayed with reason.
- Cinematography: This film is a prime example of how editing can destroy a story. So much of this film is choppy, staples together scenes with no meaning or purpose behind them. The fight scenes are so short and dull because the shot choices are lackluster and the music choices are asynchronous. Production design is interesting, but there's way too much time spent watching and narrating movements and activities that have no bearing on the story.
- Energy: It's shocking how boring fighting and drug use can be. While the fight scenes are very short and awkward, messy editing and lacking narrative focus are what really kill this film.
- Narrative: The story struggles to find a focus, oscillating from drug issues to relationship problems to competition issues but is never focused on any one of them long enough to make any of the moments worthwhile. The ending attempts to go for a message about how unappreciated Mark Kerr is, but the story doesn't do anything to make us appreciate him.
- T-Points: The film received one bonus point for a conversation about medication in Japan.
Very disappointing. You know a movie is bad when the ending has to remind you the main character's name and beg you to remember it.
Number of Watches: 1
