As perfect as Mickey Rourke was as Marv in Sin City, his portrayal of Robin "Randy 'The Ram' Robinson" Ramzinski was just as ideal, yet this time placed in a world so real you can feel every blow that lands on Randy's steroid-addled achingly too-old-for-this-$#!% body.

Randy was a showcase wrestler in the 80s, but unlike national WWF sensations like the Hulk Hogan Randy resembles on the surface with his artificial tan and bleached blond long hair, Randy was just involved in a regional circuit. Unlike the members of the Hogan Knows Best family, Randy works at an off-brand grocery store during the week and still wrestles on the weekends. He lives in a run down New Jersey trailer he can barely afford, and when he can't afford the rent, his landlord padlocks his trailer so "The Ram" has to sleep outside in his Dodge Ram.

Randy's personal life has suffered as well. His only non-wrestler friend is an aging stripper, Pam, stagenamed Cassidy (Marisa Tomei – My Cousin Vinny, Seinfeld) who is in many ways Randy's female equivalent in life: working a cash job and making less and less due to an aging frame, and a poor social life because of it. Randy also has an estranged maybe-lesbian daughter Stephanie (Evan Rachel Wood – Running with Scissors, Across the Universe) that he'd love to have a relationship with… if he could just stop letting her down.

The Wrestler is a simple, sad movie about a simple, sad man living his simple, sad life his way: for his fans, who may just be all that Randy lives for. It is acted well by a tiny cast, and people who like, don't care about, or even actively dislike professional wrestling will all be moved by this emotional look into a very real character's life. It must also be mentioned that pervs in us all will be quite pleased at the look into Marisa Tomei's realistic and uncensored portrayal of Cassidy in a small town strip club.

ComicsOnline gives The Wrestler on Blu-ray 4 out of 5 real lives lived.