Review of The Smashing Machine

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.