Bodybuilder (2014) Reviews

• At last a film about bodybuilding

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  As far as I know, you have to get back in time till 1976 with STAY HUNGRY to have a fiction movie speaking of bodybuilding - except of course the famous PUMPING IRON, which as a documentary starring Arnold Schwarzennegger, the most known and best bodybuilder of all times. The french movie I am talking today is the genuine portrait of what a bodybuilder life actually is. See, I was myself a bodybuilder in the eighties, and I assure you that this feature is very accurate in that field. Although it doesn't really shows the steroids problems beside this sport. It only suggests some medicine stuff. And steroids is a major problem in bodybuilding. But hush hush...What I just told you last second is off the record. See? Bodybuilding is very bad known from the large audiences. But it is a sport where a total dedication at three hundred percent is the whole key. Physically, mentally, financially and with social life - family, boy or girl friends, and not speaking of side effects of steroids, ligaments, muscles which have to support thousands of tons of iron in order to get blasted; or also the tons of white of eggs or poultry you have to eat. In resume, in addition to the total dedication, you also have to deal with health problems. And for what result? Except a trophy...And ONLY if you win. Because keep in mind that in a contest, you are in front of a jury. Like in a court. The jury decide who is the best. Even if you are really the best, the biggest and the most ripped to the bone, you may not win, if only the judges don't like you... So all the awesome preparation for nuts !!! No money in bodybuilding, except for the pros. So, PLEASE, a little respect for these iron gladiators. Because steroids do not make everything !!! If they did, you would find bodybuilders at each street corner. NEVER FORGET THIS. So, that said, back to the film itself. The making, acting, editing are convincing. And the actor as the lead, the athlete, he is terrific, and I hope he will continue in acting. He has the prefect face for crime flicks, as a cop or a gangster, in the line of Joe Prestia or the late Michel Constantin. Those two are from sport too. Vincent Rottiers as the little prick, dick head, is terrific too. One last thing, this film also teaches you that winning is not the only key to achievement. Don't miss this movie. It deserves to be watched.

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• An average movie, full of bigger than average men.

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  Bodybuilder is a very average movie, with a very average set of actors, a very average direction, but bigger than average men. It depicts the life of a bodybuilder whose son is in trouble with local thugs. This big guy is completely detached from his son's life to the point of not even remembering his age. Reluctantly, he gives him a place to stay to get him out of trouble, just as he is going through his last weeks of hard training for some bodybuilding championship. Surprisingly, his obsession with his bodybuilding career is put aside little by little as he grows fonder of his son. The story is nothing special as you can see, and nothing in the movie manages to make it better. Certainly not the passive acting, and lack of energy of everyone involved. If you find yourself wanting to watch a movie, it could just be acceptable enough for a night in which you are not paying too much attention to the screen. But again, even for that, there's plenty of better choices out there.

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