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sjpltd
IMDb member since March 2000
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Beyond the Mat (1999)
A great idea for a film, but manipulative for a doc.
18 March 2000 - 1 out of 6 users found this review helpful.
The reaction of the wife seeing her husband getting injured near the end of the film felt staged or, at minimum, "helped along." This guy has wrestled for years and has been injured before. The filmmaker made it look like it was the first time she's ever seen it and that felt unnatural.
Also, the entire piece was shot on video. I wish distributors were forced to state that a film release was originally shot in low-res video (at least Blair Witch made that clear). One day everything we'll see in the theater will have been shot in hi-res video, but we're not there yet.
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