The Smashing Machine

With Randy Couture, Kerr is perhaps the most intelligent, articulate, and plain likable athlete mixed martial arts has produced, qualities which combined with his earnestness and vulnerability make this a uniquely wrenching exploration of addiction (not merely to drugs) and the nature and spectacle of bloodsport. Superb editing and use of music throughout; the presentation of the final match is a masterclass in reworking live footage for theme and narrative. Safdie-Johnson adaptation now pls

An uninteresting documentary about a really dumb and stupid sport. I watched it because it featured Bas Rutten, and I'd watch anything with Bas Rutten. Kick to the head, knee to the face BAM BAM

Full disclosure: I'm a huge MMA dork so I was already predisposed to like this film. That said, it's an interesting and fair look into a sport that was certainly misunderstood when this documentary was released back in 2002, and is still somewhat misunderstood to this day. This film's doubly interesting when you look what's become of the people featured since its release.

Rather subversive look at Mark Kerr and PRIDE at the turn of the millenium. Good footage of Kerr, Bas Rutten, Mark Colemon and Igor Vovchanchyn. Overly sensational otherwise and a poor primer to those unfamiliar with the sport. If you weren't a fan of PRIDE you won't get much out of this.

great MMA doc

One of the best MMA docs out there.

Kerr comes across great in this, despite his demons. Coleman also makes for a surprisingly likable main character here. Great, gruesome behind-the-scenes look at MMA, with some amazing stuff from when PRIDE just had otherworldly support and presentation.

much more interesting than the title and summary suggest but i do like mma

Pretty ridiculous sport - which supplies this documentary with some pretty (good) graphic action shots. I was surprised at the eloquence and general thoughtfulness shown by Kerr and some of the others.

Hard to take would be an understatement.