The Carnivore Reviews: WARRIOR

This article first appeared on The Spectator Arts Blog.

You’d think – looking at the title and the bare chests and biceps bulging on the poster – that Warrior was a computer game with a cheat code for social disintegration. Steel yourself for a Rocky reboot with all the sense kicked out of it. Wrong! Step a little closer on the tube platform and look deep into the eyes of those human hulks: they could be the weepies of a Childline regular or of a baby basset let loose to gambol on the M4.

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