Tyson Review

Tyson
Documentary/confessional of Mike Tyson, World Heavyweight champion.

by Damon Wise |
Published on
Release Date:

27 Mar 2009

Running Time:

90 minutes

Certificate:

TBC

Original Title:

Tyson

Using just to-camera interviews and a few telling clips, Tyson is more like a confessional than a character study, from which Iron Mike emerges as a troubled and misunderstood poet. Nothing says this better than the images of him looking out across the sea while quoting, in voiceover, Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad Of Reading Gaol.

Very humane portrait of a potentially extremely unlikeable character.
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