Peaceful Warrior (2006)
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Reviews Counted: 73
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 55
Based on a best-selling memoir, Peaceful Warrior loses something in the transition from page to screen. It hits the viewer over the head with philosophical jargon, and ultimately fails to live up to its source material.
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Critic Reviews: 25
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 22
Based on a best-selling memoir, Peaceful Warrior loses something in the transition from page to screen. It hits the viewer over the head with philosophical jargon, and ultimately fails to live up to its source material.
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Jeepers Creepers director Victor Salva takes a break from the horror to offer an inspirational tale about the remarkable power of the human spirit as the pages of Dan Millman's best-selling autobiographical novel come to life onscreen in this life-affirming film starring Nick Nolte, Scott Mechlowicz, and Amy Smart. A talented college gymnast with serious Olympic aspirations, Dan Millman (Mechlowicz) leads a charmed life of first-place trophies, fast girls, and rowdy parties until a
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Cast
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Scott Mechlowicz
Dan Millman -
Nick Nolte
Socrates -
Amy Smart
Joy -
Tim DeKay
Coach Garrick -
Ashton Holmes
Tommy -
Paul Wesley
Trevor -
B.J. Britt
Kyle -
Agnes Bruckner
Susie -
Tom Tarantini
Thug With Gun -
Beatrice Rosen
Dory -
Ray Wise
Doctor Hayden -
Scott Caudill
Thug One -
Matthew Prater
Thug Two -
Bart Connor
As Himself -
Jim Bradley
Commentator One -
Dan Millman
Man in Car -
Steve Talley
Young Garage Man -
Tom Costello
Dan's Neighbor -
Karen Landry
Patricia Millman -
Rob Moran
Dan Millman Sr. -
Chad Nadolski
Medic -
Neil Furuno
Gymnast One -
Charles Grisham
Bar Patron #1 -
Tyler Vogt
Bar Patron #2 -
Paul Wasilewski
Trevor Scott
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All Critics (77) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (56) | DVD (2)
[A] watchable exercise in Zen hokum.
Top CriticMaybe there are worthy films buried in collections of spiritual homilies, but Peaceful Warrior is not one of them.
Don't go see Peaceful Warrior. Don't tell your friends about it. Try to forget you ever heard of the movie. Clear your mind and live in the now.
A movie about spiritual awakening that plays like a spliced-together string of New Age fortune cookie messages.
Starting with the title and extending everywhere else, Peaceful Warrior is blatantly ludicrous.
You're in the moment all right, experiencing every passing minute ticking off in slow motion until the blasted thing comes to a merciful end.
Like Karate Kid -- without the karate.
...surprisingly inventive...
The film's tone is indeed mystically propelled, but while these elements seem far fetched, the sheer depth of commitment by the cast make us overlook that.
This is an average movie that's chock-full of New-Age-y self help. And not much else.
claims to be 'inspired by true events'; the movie does not, however, specify the planet on which these events allegedly took place. ... a perfect companion piece to last year's dim-witted 'Stick It'...
Warrior is a good-looking film that feels more like an allegory about the power of positive thinking than a drama.
You will not learn how to levitate to the roof of a service station. In fact, the answer to that part of the story is a lemon -- but you knew it would be, didn't you?
The message is good, even if the delivery is repetitive, ham-handed and...equal parts disturbing and amusing.
Only in filmmaker Victor Salva's world are impossibly chiseled, Abercrombie-ready gymnasts worshipped by their peers on college campuses and in adjoining dive bars.
Works overtime to inspire audiences, but relies way too much on pop-mysticism and half-baked artifice to make its point stick.
Admittedly, I suspected it might be kind of cheesy, but the film is directed with great grace and care. And the acting is solid. It's a beautiful film -- see it.
Audience Reviews for Peaceful Warrior
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- Dan Millman Sr.: When making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, you must first apply the peanuts, not the jelly, to the bottom half of the bread.
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- Dan Millman: The people who are the hardest to love are the ones who need it the most.
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- Socrates: Better never start, once you start, better finish
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- Socrates: Where are you?
- Dan Millman: Here.
- Socrates: What time is it?
- Dan Millman: Now.
- Socrates: What are you?
- Dan Millman: This moment.
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- Socrates: A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does.
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- Socrates: Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.
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