I rated this movie a 10 for acting by ALL the actors but only a 5 for the movie as a whole and especially the story which was ho-hum and nothing different or clever.
Christian Bale and Casey Affleck are brothers in Braddock, PA. Rodney (Casey) has just finished 4 tours of duty in Iraq and has a lot of anger issues. Russ (Christian) is a mild mannered mill worker. The love and loyalty between them was nicely done in the beginning of the movie; showing that through various circumstances and situations (jail for DUI, breakup of a relationship, unemployment, the dying and then death of their father) they stick together and stick up for each other.
Rodney starts street fighting for money and he works with Willem Dafoe. Rodney keeps wanting to make more and more money so he pressures Dafoe to contact a real hard ass psychopath played by who else? Woody Harrelson. I don't want to give away what happens next even though its not much of a surprise.
The 2 best scenes of the movie (which was slow even during the violent scenes) was Rodney raging to Russ about some of the things he saw and did in Iraq and how he didn't want to live a loser life by settling down and working at the mill and the other great scene was Woody Harrelson's shooting up with crystal meth and rushing to peak mania.
bill also gave this movie a 5. Next Christian Bale fix for me will be watching him in American Hustle.
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