The Last Gladiators
April 2012
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Colin Covert
The opening sections of this film play like a greatest-hits clip collection, but when Gibney delves deeper into Nilan's personality, it's a magnetic portrait of a rinkside Raging Bull.
Nick Schager
Gibney celebrates hockey's fisticuff traditions while also recognizing how such brutality ultimately takes its greatest toll on those who perpetrate it.
Farran Smith Nehme
Gibney deserves credit for making a hockey film that the uninitiated can watch with interest, and for focusing on an issue even some hockey fans can't make up their minds about.
Nicolas Rapold
Pretty or not, the stories of dropped gloves and smashed faces shed some clarity on the game's violence ...
Elizabeth Weitzman
At his best, Gibney focuses on his subject and then explodes it outward. But with "The Last Gladiators," he's taken a rare misstep. There is undoubtedly a great story within the bruised history of NHL enforcers. Why, though, did he choose Chris Nilan's?
Critic reviews
Colin Covert
The opening sections of this film play like a greatest-hits clip collection, but when Gibney delves deeper into Nilan's personality, it's a magnetic portrait of a rinkside Raging Bull.
Nick Schager
Gibney celebrates hockey's fisticuff traditions while also recognizing how such brutality ultimately takes its greatest toll on those who perpetrate it.
Farran Smith Nehme
Gibney deserves credit for making a hockey film that the uninitiated can watch with interest, and for focusing on an issue even some hockey fans can't make up their minds about.
Nicolas Rapold
Pretty or not, the stories of dropped gloves and smashed faces shed some clarity on the game's violence ...
Elizabeth Weitzman
At his best, Gibney focuses on his subject and then explodes it outward. But with "The Last Gladiators," he's taken a rare misstep. There is undoubtedly a great story within the bruised history of NHL enforcers. Why, though, did he choose Chris Nilan's?
Cast and credits
Actors | Chris Nilan, Donald Brashear, Marty McSorley, Paul Schantz, Tony Twist |
Producers | Alex Gibney, Jim Podhoretz, Larry Weitzman |
Director | Alex Gibney |
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English
Run time
90 minutes
Rating
R
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