Warrior tells the story of two brothers– Brendan and Tommy – campaigning to enter an ultimate fighting competition. The two men are doing it for completely opposite reasons; Tommyjust for the sake of beating loads of people up! And Brendan so he can look after his family. Whatever their reasons, O’Connor, the director, allows us to empathise with them both… tortured by their newly sober father, who is trying to redeem both himself and his sons. This existential feud between estranged brothers is brought into a literal battle when they come head to head in the final fight of the whole competition. And as we see the two destroy each other out of frustration and whole-hearted love and longing, this fight becomes the peripeteia in their battered relationship. Bringing them together, bonding over the mutual anger they have at the world, and more importantly their love for each other.