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Peaceful Warrior
Directed by
Victor Salva
PG-13
2006
2h
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7.2
26%
76%
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Dan, a college student and a world-champion gymnast, is disturbed and wants to add some meaning to his life. A chance encounter leads him to discover an enlightened way ahead.
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Cast of Peaceful Warrior
Scott Mechlowicz
Dan Millman
Nick Nolte
Socrates
Amy Smart
Joy
Tim DeKay
Coach Garrick
Ashton Holmes
Tommy
Paul Wesley
Trevor
Agnes Bruckner
Susye
B.J. Britt
Kyle
Tom Tarantini
Thug with gun
Beatrice Rosen
Dory
Ray Wise
Doctor Hayden
Vladislav Kozlov
Kissing guy (uncredited)
Scott Caudill
Thug #1
Victor Salva
Director
Kevin Bernhardt
Writer
Dan Millman
Writer
Mark Amin
Producer
Robin Schorr
Producer
David Welch
Producer
Cami Winikoff
Producer
Peaceful Warrior Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Reader
J. R. Jones
[A] watchable exercise in Zen hokum.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Hap Erstein
Maybe there are worthy films buried in collections of spiritual homilies, but Peaceful Warrior is not one of them.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Don't go see Peaceful Warrior. Don't tell your friends about it. Try to forget you ever heard of the movie. Clear your mind and live in the now.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
A movie about spiritual awakening that plays like a spliced-together string of New Age fortune cookie messages.
New York Times
Nathan Lee
Starting with the title and extending everywhere else, Peaceful Warrior is blatantly ludicrous.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
It has deep things to say and a hilariously ponderous way of saying them.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
All this stuff is probably right. It's just that the director, Victor Salva, underscores his points with thunderous obviousness and manipulates us through ham-handed plot gambits.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
It's an odd, puzzling film.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The story arc of Peaceful Warrior is so familiar that in addition to being inspired by fact, it is inspired by at least two-thirds of all the sports movies ever made.
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
Dan's transformation hits the kinds of snags that might occur in real life but spell doom for narrative momentum.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Peaceful Warrior, which is basically The Karate Kid with a bigger kid and a bigger mentor, represents a journey of predictability, rather than a destination worth the trouble.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
The What The Bleep Do We Know? crowd may well receive the film's wisdom like communion, but the rest of us are free to gag when Salva tries to jam it down our throats.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
The soundtrack here is piercingly awful, the gymnastics routines hold little suspense, and after a while I just wanted Socrates to give it a rest.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Jeepers creepers, Victor Salva is at it again. His new film is ostensibly inspired by true events, but whose events exactly?
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Based on the story by gymnast Dan Millman, the movie tries to be inspirational and profound, but much of the dialogue sounds like it came out of a fortune cookie.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
The film is better than it has any right to be, considering the prosaic source.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
The sage-elder/wayward-charge saga Peaceful Warrior aims for inspirational highs but mostly feels like a self-help book read aloud by actors.
Arizona Republic
Kathy Cano-Murillo
Peaceful Warrior is meant to empower and enlighten. But it tries so hard, it's more like inspiration overkill: 121 torturous minutes of long-winded lectures about living in the moment.
Associated Press
David Germain
The sometimes dreamy pace of Peaceful Warrior is offset by good rapport among Nolte, co-star Scott Mechlowicz and an engaging ensemble cast.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
This woozily uplifting saga is big on homilies and deficient in just about everything else.
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