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Peaceful Warrior
Lions Gate Films / DEJ Productions
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FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for sensuality, sex references and accident scenes
Starring
Scott Mechlowicz,
Nick Nolte,
Amy Smart,
Paul Wesley,
Ashton Holmes,
Agnes Bruckner,
B.J. Britt,
and
Beatrice Rosen
Dan Millman (Mechlowicz) is a talented college gymnast with Olympic dreams. He has it all: trophies, teammates, fast motorcycles, fast girls and wild parties. Then Dan's world is turned upside down when he meets a mysterious stranger he calls Socrates (Nolte), who holds the power to tap into new worlds of strength and understanding. After a serious injury, with the help of Socrates and an elusive young woman named Joy (Smart), Dan discovers that he has much to learn and even more to leave behind before he can become a peaceful warrior and find his destiny. This moving tale about the power of the human spirit is based on Dan Millman's best-selling autobiographical novel, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. (Lionsgate)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Kevin Bernhardt
Dan Millman (novel Way of the Peaceful Warrior)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Victor Salva
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: June 26, 2007
Theatrical: June 2, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
121 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

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70
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
Strong performances by Scott Mechlowicz as Millman and Nick Nolte as the mysterious mechanic who changes his life ground the film in effective drama.

63
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The result is something close to a textbook example of how NOT to visualize spiritual principles of the "be here now" variety.

63
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Sometimes in an imperfect movie there is consolation simply in regarding the actors.

58
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
Cult-favorite director Victor Salva ("Jeepers Creepers" I & II) is a competent visual storyteller and the film believes in itself so strongly (and with such a straight face) that it's hard not to halfway enjoy it.

58
Entertainment Weekly
Scott Brown
In the ranks of improbable gymnastics coaches, Nick Nolte falls just below the cartoon version of Mr. T.

50
Variety
Robert Koehler
Mere recitation of homilies for better living -- which is what Nick Nolte's gas station guru imparts to a struggling young gymnast -- and a half-baked account of the athlete's comeback are no substitutes for a complete movie.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
The film is better than it has any right to be, considering the prosaic source.

50
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
Above all, there's Nolte, who hovers over the whole production like some sapient force of nature.

50
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
All this stuff is probably right. It's just that the director, Victor Salva, underscores his points with thunderous obviousness and manipulates us through ham-handed plot gambits.

50
Portland Oregonian
M. E. Russell
You might be better off reading the book and imagining Nolte as Socrates.

50
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
Watchable exercise in Zen hokum.

42
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
The "What The Bleep Do We Know?" crowd may well receive the film's wisdom like communion, but the rest of us are free to gag when Salva tries to jam it down our throats.

40
The New York Times
Nathan Lee
For all its manifest corniness, this is an achingly sincere and supremely unembarrassed effort to transform an audience for the good. Its heart is very much in the right place - a place that movies all but ignore - but its mind is a mush.

40
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
You'd have to be either an avid New Ager or willing to see Nick Nolte in absolutely anything to get fully onboard for this visually overexcited tale of salvation-by-gas-station-guru.

38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
The cast is quite good. But Peaceful Warrior, which is basically "The Karate Kid" with a bigger kid and a bigger mentor, represents a journey of predictability, rather than a destination worth the trouble.

38
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
The film's biggest miracle is the straight face Nick Nolte maintains in his role as Socrates.

38
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
The intriguing thing about The Peaceful Warrior is that nothing else in the movie feels haphazard.

38
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
By the end of the film's two-hour stream of Be-Here-Now-isms, anyone left in the audience will be wanting to yell, "Put a sock in it!" to old Soc.

30
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
The sage-elder/wayward-charge saga Peaceful Warrior aims for inspirational highs but mostly feels like a self-help book read aloud by actors.

25
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
This woozily uplifting saga is big on homilies and deficient in just about everything else.

25
Miami Herald
Connie Ogle
One of those blessedly rare films based on a self-help book, is remarkable in one sense: It prevents "The Lake House" and its magical mailbox from being the most ridiculous concept on screen this summer.

25
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Tries to be "The Karate Kid" of gymnastics. It looks more like "The Karate Kid" as imagined by Details magazine.

25
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Peaceful Warrior fails pitifully at being transcendent. This New Age movie about living in the moment gets you looking at your watch and squirming in your seat.


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