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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

the audience applauded

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Mixed Martial Arts appeals to me and that is why I enjoyed watching The Smashing Machine: The Life And Times Of Mark Kerr. I think Mark was a really exciting fighter to watch. His power was incredible, strength was overwhelming and his physique was intimidating.This movie also presented Mark Kerr from a personal standpoint. From his addiction to drugs and his subsequent rehabilitation to breaking up with his girlfriend, who he later married. I also liked the fact that they included footage of Mark Coleman. This gave the video a variety. I would like to see Kerr vs Coleman one day (if it hasn't already happened). I'm sure it would be (or was) an exciting match. All in all, I think that Mark Kerr is a great fighter and those of you who are into MMA tournaments would agree with me that he is exciting to watch.This only thing I disagreed with is the tournament Kerr fought in where they made elbows and knees illegal. This makes the tournament seem like less of a shoot fight and more of a pure grappling exhibition, in which people like the Gracies would win all day long.

This film was first and foremost, a beautifully choreographed work of humanity, featuring blood, violence, drugs, sweat, tears, drama, pain, love, enthusiasm, and pure adrenaline pumping action. Mark Coleman is seen in the last scene of the film in the Championship match as the undetermined underdog of the film made so because of his old age, and a long-time friend of Mark Kerr, the lead character of this documentary expedition. Coleman is pitted against the man who gave Mark Kerr his first loss of his career in a fascinating, moving, enrapturing and brilliant explosion of violence and desperate animalistic passion. The scene is quick and tense. The camera pans and cuts to Coleman in the ring and to Kerr who had just lost his initial fight and is having his chin stitched. This juxtaposition is forceful and the brutality experienced by the loser in the ring, not Coleman, captured through the camera's lens structured close enough to catch the blood feeding off the fighter's faces. Coleman repeatedly knees his opponent in the head from behind and his opponent panicked, in severe pain, and trapped, with only a weak arm to shield from his opponent's aggressive blows, chooses, through utter disparity to tap out, which is a rare UFC decision. His opponent does so and Coleman springs to his feet with avid and enthusiastic delight, for not only winning 200,000 dollars in cash for his wife and kids but also for winning the respect of those who doubted his return to victory. 9 out of 10.

The documentary the "Smashing Machine," was an interesting film on fighting in the Ultimate Fighting Circuit. The film shows background on the main character going from how he grew up to how left the circuit. You view the from the main characters point of view. Watching his struggles, his victories, and his pain.In the film you see the pain and struggle on the fighter's face. The pain you see in him makes you care for the fighter. At the point in the film when he is in the hospital for an overdose, you feel you have gotten to know this person on the screen.Even if you not in favor of this type of fighting. You become empathetic for him, watching him struggle through his relationship with his girlfriend, drug use and losing a fight.

"The Smashing Machine", which follows mixed martial arts competitor Mark Kerr's career from late '99 until the Pride Grand Prix 2000 tournament in Japan, is a stunning and provocative look at a man whose fights with his own personal demons rival those he encounters in the ring (or in the octagon). Also featured in the documentary is Mark Coleman, who at the time was coming off a two-year slump in the sport.I think what struck me the most was the dramatic aspect of it. Kerr, for one, surprised me with his willingness to bare his soul before the camera. The movie goes a long way to dispell many stereotypes that many people have of shootfighters, as both Kerr and Coleman come across as genuinely good people (and in Coleman's case a devout husband and father). John Hyams provides the audience with an extremely candid look at the life of Kerr, who deals with a drug abuse problem and a potentially dysfunctional relationship. For those who aren't fans of MMA, the access Kerr grants to Hyams will shock and move you. For those who are fans, the bouts that are shown (through clips) become even more pivotal and dramatic.For fans of Mixed Martial Arts the documentary will forever change the way you'll look at Kerr and Coleman, while also adding an added dimension to the drama that occurs within the ring (or octagon). "The Smashing Machine" provides a moving glimpse into the lives of people whose weaknesses make them more identifiable to the audience than any other documentary subject or film character, despite their profession and physiques.Highly recommended for fans and non-fans alike,, and especially for those who view MMA as barbaric and its fighters as testosterone-driven madmen.