The Movie Filter by Jeff Roedel – The Wrestler weighs heavy

To be sure, The Wrestler offers a perfect match of actor and part as it is written. But what bothers me now, when it didn’t all these past months before I saw the film, is all this talk about the “Resurrection of Mickey Rourke,” because, if anything, his emotive, resonant performance in the film feels more like a swan-song that a phoenix rising up from the self-induced flame-out of his own rocky career. More…