It was a very good documentary and I enjoyed it immensely. It was like an audience with Mike Tyson. I went to the cinema in Soho and it had about 30 people there. It's a shame the film isn't being shown more widely. Nevertheless, Tyson is on screen for 90 minutes non stop bar archive footage being shown. Tyson talks you through his whole life. Inevitably he misses a few things and doesn't delve as deep as you'd like on some points but for the first time you hear it from the horses mouth. Weirdly enough Tyson says everything we already thought but I enjoyed it because he confirmed it 100%. He was bullied, guy hurt his pigeon, he went crazy, embraced the street life, went jail etc etc It's an interesting documentary that is sad and funny. Tyson is often unintentionally funny, he just has that sort of character. It is also very sad and Tyson holds back tears many times. What's weird and great is Tyson not only telling us his life story but having the hindsight to give himself a psycho analysis. Why was he is promiscious, why was he violent etc At present this is the ultimate Tyson account. I loved it.
Yea, watched it. I thought it was somewhere from OK to decent and definitely worth a look. There are some nice touches. I don't think they really get across what a phenomenon and how absolutely huge he was pre Douglas though. Neither do I think they really capture the 80s or 90s - give a taste of the times - what being HW champ meant compaired to now. If you hadn't lived through that time, were at least of a certain age, I doubt this documentary would hit home how massive, and feared - especially pre Douglas - he really was. I can't think of any celebrity or sports person since, that has come even close to the media impact he had back then. I was pretty young at the time so it may have distorted my view a little, but his media coverage was more of Obama or 9/11 proportions, rather than that of say a Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan etc... He was an absolute phenonenon... it's hard to portray, or to put into words the impact... It would have been nice if they would have gone a little deeper into some of the topics, but I guess it was difficult with the time restraints of a movie format. Still, definitely worth a look, imho, and certainly not a bad effort.
I liked it that he made it clear the reasons and his lack of desire for the Lewis fight and also his description of Mr King.
watched it last night, i thought it was brilliant, thought provoking, sad, sometimes funny, great insight into the mind of mike. i would recommend everyone gets their own copy of this, its tremendously well made.
prime tyson best heavyweight ever. the film is fantastic, when he is talking about how no one will mess with him again because he can kill the due to his boxing skill, seriously powerful.
no good but not the best yeh real good film only bit taht annoyed me was when they had tyson speaking at the same time with 3 of him at the beach
Brilliant film. Fasinating insight into the crazy world of Mike Tyson. The blokes not wired up right. That guy who upset him at the pressy must of shat himself,I nearly did just watchin the dvd...you know when you really wish you'd never opened your mouth. I sat riveted for the whole film.He's a definate schyts. 1 min he's like a spoilt kid,the next a ravin animal who wants to rip your lungs out. Shows real hatred for King and those 2 gold diggin slags who ****ed him up.Looks to have a decent woman now though who just might save him from the tragic end we have all feared.
the thing is he speaks about himself from a complete neutrall view he knows hes crazy but he trys to change
I've downloaded this but haven't got round to watching it. Better watch it now after all these review :yep