Director: Alex Gibney
Stars: Donald Brashear, Marty McSorley, Chris Nilan, Paul Schantz, Tony Twist
Writers: Jim Podhoretz, Larry Weitzman
In Movie Theaters: Friday, February 1, 2013
Runtime: 1 hour, 34 minutes
Runtime: 94 min
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Story of The Movie : Academy Award winning director Alex Gibney takes an unprecedented look in The Last Gladiators at the National Hockey League’s most feared enforcers and explores the career of Chris “Knuckles” Nilan. The role was simple: protect their teammates no matter the cost. For Chris this meant a shattered body, addiction to drugs, and harming the people closest to him. But in the process, he won the love of hockey’s holy city, Montreal, and helped the team win the Stanley Cup. Through interviews with hockey’s toughest guys, the film explores what it means to enforce the unspoken code of the NHL.
In ice hockey, no one is tougher than the "goon". Those players have one mission: to protect the star players at any price.
Opinion About This Movie: Blending archival footage and new interviews with Nilan, his family, journalists, and fellow combatants, Gibney celebrates hockey's fisticuff traditions while also recognizing how such brutality ultimately takes its greatest toll on those who perpetrate it.
Mr. Gibney]scales down his approach considerably here, generally for the better, rather than extrapolate a theory of violence and everything.
When The Last Gladiators treats brawls like greatest-hits clips for more than half the movie, then suggests fighting is behind Nilan's decline, it feels like trying to have it both ways.
This is an real-life hockey version of "The Wrestler". The movie is well-made and has a modern feeling to it. The narration is somewhat slow-p… Expand
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