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22/60 pts
The Smashing Machine
On-line review · 22/60 pts
If you are a fan of MMA you may enjoy this one, otherwise I highly doubt it.
The Smashing Machine (2025)
The Smashing Machine (2025)
Pat G. · Oct 29, 2025
If you are a fan of MMA you may enjoy this one, otherwise I highly doubt it. Despite it being one of the better performances of The Rock's acting career, the storytelling is all over the place.
The biopic of Mark Kerr (The Rock) could have been a good one but it can't decide if it should focus on the MMA portion or the personal life, and in the end I ended up being more interested in Kerr's friend and MMA fighter Mark Coleman. I wanted to like this movie and just didn't. It gets 1 1/2 Reeses Peanut Butter Cups.
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