Director Darren Aronofsky’s much-lauded character study is some solid filmmaking, but doesn’t quite live up to the hype it generated. Mickey Rourke deserves every bit of praise he received for his superb, career-defining performance – and the rest of the cast is also very good, the authentic characters and performances manage to smooth out some of the pretty plentiful cliches in the script. Authentically and sensitively crafted, but ultimately underwhelming – a good film, but not really a great one.