The Wrestler - Preview

The Wrestler, starring Mickey Rourke, is getting a lot of early buzz.

In the trailer, you'll notice that the critics are saying this is a comeback for Rouke. It isn't very often that a trailer has "this guy sucked, but now he's good" written all over it. Interesting ploy, trying to tie the main character into the lead actor and attract a fan base that may have written Rourke off long ago.

I'm probably the only person on Earth that thought Mickey Rourke was always a good actor. He was in some dud films, but I never saw him as a talentless hack. It was his off-screen stuff that got him into trouble, and he knows it.

If people want to talk about a comeback for Rourke, I would say Sin City in 2005 more than covered that.