The Wrestler 4.5
Yes, it was a virtuoso acting performance by Mickey Rourke, onscreen the whole movie, but it was like he was acting in a vacuum, or a paper bag. Evan Rachel Wood and the marvelous Marisa Tomei notwithstanding, there was no interaction with another person that engaged or convinced. No man approaching 50, who had abused his body so hard and long, could have pro-wrestled at that level. No one who was greeted as a legend every time he entered a locker room would have been so devoid of friends. By the time he took his final leap off the turnbuckle, we didn’t really care if he won, lost, lived or died.