An average movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since there was a decent cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. I have to admit that I have never been a fan of Wrestling and, even though this movie was a decent attempt to legitimize this ‘sport’, to be honest, I wasn’t still not really convinced. Another thing that bothered me was that, even though Dwayne Johnson was displayed prominently on all the promotional material, he actually had only 2 small scenes (the 1^st one was pretty cool though). Anyway, the movie itself was pretty much a generic sports feature faithfully following the rules of the genre. The end, even if it was fairly entertaining, didn’t make much sense to me though. Indeed, since all the fights in Wrestling are fixed from the beginning, if the fighters have a script to follow, how can you actually win a fight?!? Saraya/Paige should have known even before the fight started that she was going to win or maybe I completely misunderstood this ‘sport’ but, to be honest, I don’t think I really care. There is one thing that really worked though with this movie and it was Florence Pugh. Indeed, so far, I have seen her only in this movie and ‘Midsommar’ but she seriously impressed me and I can understand why she is considered as one of the most promising upcoming actresses working today. In this movie, she completely disappeared in her character, she was really convincing and seriously charismatic. In fact, it was rather annoying that it took the character the whole duration to figure how charismatic she was but I blamed more the script then Pugh’s strong performance. Anyway, to conclude, even if I still think that Wrestling is terribly tedious, I have to admit that this movie was still fairly entertaining and it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.