The Last Gladiators: The Role of Hockey's Enforcers R
Some fights never end
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 12, 2013
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Peace Arch Trinity
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | Alex Gibney |
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Rating: 3/4 --
Even if you're not a hockey fan, Nilan is a modest and insightful guy.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Gibney deserves credit for making a hockey film that the uninitiated can watch with interest, and for focusing on an issue even some hockey fans can't make up their minds about.
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New York Post
Rating: 3/5 --
Pretty or not, the stories of dropped gloves and smashed faces shed some clarity on the game's violence ...
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New York Times
Rife with game clips of fights and face-punching reminiscences, the film settles on one remarkable veteran, Chris Nilan, the Boston-born resident bruiser of the Montreal Canadiens in the 1980s, known as Knuckles.
New York Times
Rating: 2/5 --
At his best, Gibney focuses on his subject and then explodes it outward. But with "The Last Gladiators," he's taken a rare misstep. There is undoubtedly a great story within the bruised history of NHL enforcers. Why, though, did he choose Chris Nilan's?
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New York Daily News
Rating: B --
Gibney, always a master of the documentary interview, gives us another captivating talking head in Chris Nilan.
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Film School Rejects
In a way, this doc is Bully, grown up, and from the bully's perspective.
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Movies With Butter
Product Description:
Chris "Knuckles" Nilan is the focus of Alex Gibney's THE LAST GLADIATORS, a documentary that examines the role hockey "enforcers" -- tough guys hired to protect star hockey players on the ice and get into fights with each other -- played for decades in the NHL. Full of entertaining fight footage, and interviews with uber-tough guys like Tony Twist and Marty McSorley, Gibney's film also addresses head-on how the personalities of the men who did this job better than others have often made it very difficult for them to have a problem-free life after they are too old to continue their careers. THE LAST GLADIATORS played at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival.
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