Just relentless lisping monotonous speech that makes the prospect of entering the ring with Mike seem attractive if only because it will be over sooner.
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08/09/09
Tyson (2009)
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Reviews Counted:123
Fresh:106
Rotten:17
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: A fascinating, emotional, and frank confessional from Iron Mike that sheds a sympathetic light on one of boxing's most controversial icons.
Australian Theatrical Release:
Aug 6, 2009 Wide
US Box Office: $825,450
Synopsis: Love him or hate him, Mike Tyson is inarguably one of popular culture’s most fascinating figures. In this riveting documentary portrait of the controversial boxer, filmmaker and friend James Toback... [More]
Director: James Toback
Reviews for Tyson
1 - 20 (sorted by rotten rating; Australian critics are listed first)
Top CriticBrutally honest, Tyson offers one perspective on the life of the boxer – his own. This intimate look is enough to carry the film through its fascinating portrait of the fallen hero.
08/04/09
Top CriticThis doco goes a little way to portraying Tyson as more human than animal. Iron Mike even sheds a few tears.
08/02/09
Top CriticHe’s amazingly frank about some of the people he doesn’t like, and he breaks down when he talks about his friends and the people he loved. A surprisingly fine documentary.
08/05/09
Top CriticTyson is presented via multiple split screen, with relentlessly frank and rhythmic sentences overlapping one another. The effect is mesmerising.
08/05/09
Top CriticIn these interviews, there's a strange poetry to the way he talks about his life. I actually found it really moving.
08/05/09
Top CriticThere is something compelling about the way he presents his version of the stories and scandals that surround him.
08/07/09
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08/19/09
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07/16/09
Hypnotic and ultimately incomplete.
05/08/09
Tyson simply doesn't provoke you enough intellectually. It feels mildly compelling, occasionally moving and revealing, but it ultimately suffers from too much style over substance.
04/25/09
I went into the movie ambivalent about him, but after hearing his hate-fuled, unself-aware rants, I shifted to the 'can't stand him' camp.
05/15/09
It's a movie that's thought-provoking without being intelligent and candid without being truthful. The same aesthetic choices that [director] Toback seems convinced will set his documentary apart are also what diminishes its credibility.
04/24/09
...there ultimately reaches a point at which the former fighter's relentless chattering simply becomes too much to take.
05/01/09
Despite some compelling moments, this one-sided portrait of former boxing superstar Mike Tyson feels like a missed opportunity.
04/16/09
Tyson is indeed an intriguingly contradictory hulk, but he's far from the troubling Caliban Toback's own obsessions with athleticism and negritude make him out to be
08/25/09
Tyson may be the case of a subject not quite ready for primetime, a man still smarting from his past wounds, too narcissistic, frankly, to be very interesting.
04/21/09
With no sense that Toback is pressing Tyson behind the camera, it's easy to see this as more of a puff piece propping up Tyson's sense of importance rather than any work of documentary filmmaking.
05/17/09
The mostly first-person documentary Tyson isn’t a dud, exactly, but it does feel like a missed opportunity.
04/23/09
[S]erves only to show us a reprehensible example of the worst of American manhood, and of American celebrity....
06/08/09
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