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Peaceful Warrior (2006)
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Reviews Counted:71
Fresh:17
Rotten:54
Average Rating:4.7/10
Consensus: 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.
Synopsis: Arrogant, talented Dan Millman seems to have the perfect college life: a stunning gymnast's body of incredible strength, handsome looks, good grades, plenty of money and a shot at the Olympic... [More]
Starring: Ashton Holmes, Nick Nolte, Scott Mechlowicz, Amy Smart
Director: Victor Salva
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Reviews for Peaceful Warrior
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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. Full Review |
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2/4 |
This is an average movie that's chock-full of New-Age-y self help. And not much else. Full Review |
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1.5/5 |
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'... Full Review |
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2/4 |
Warrior is a good-looking film that feels more like an allegory about the power of positive thinking than a drama. Full Review |
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[A] watchable exercise in Zen hokum. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
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? Full Review |
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The message is good, even if the delivery is repetitive, ham-handed and...equal parts disturbing and amusing. Full Review |
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1/4 |
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. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Works overtime to inspire audiences, but relies way too much on pop-mysticism and half-baked artifice to make its point stick. Full Review |
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Maybe there are worthy films buried in collections of spiritual homilies, but Peaceful Warrior is not one of them. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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2/4 |
A movie about spiritual awakening that plays like a spliced-together string of New Age fortune cookie messages. Full Review |
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2/4 |
The kind of metaphysical nonsense that gives New Age a bad name. Full Review |
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Peaceful Warrior is an inspirational story of the making of a true athlete. It's a bit hokey but you get by that whenever [Nick] Nolte is on the screen. Full Review |
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