Title: Tyson
Year: 2009
Director: James Toback
Writer: James Toback
Starring: Mike Tyson
Music: Salaam Remi
Length: 90 minutes
Synopsis: Mike Tyson tells his life story, interspersed with archival footage
How I saw it: on video (rented on DVD), yesterday
Subjective Rating: 7/10 (Good)
Objective Rating:
An interesting movie, and I had no interest in the subject (or at least, hadn't until after reading reviews of this movie). For someone with the personality Tyson is famous for to age into someone happily willing to sit down and talk candidly and unapologetically about who he was and why he was that way seems like an extremely unlikely thing to happen. So the fact that this movie exists at all is pretty amazing, and it's certainly a unique experience to watch. Also, for someone who knows nothing about boxing, it's very surprising to see just how good a boxer he was.
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