Tom Hardy Fights in the New ‘Warrior’ Clip

Tom Hardy and Nick Nolte in Warrior
Tom Hardy and Nick Nolte in Warrior - © Lionsgate Films

If you aren’t yet aware of who Tom Hardy is – or you only know of him because he’s playing Bane in the next Batman film, The Dark Knight Rises – that’s likely to change as Warrior will be putting Hardy on everyone’s radar. And in this clip supplied by Lionsgate Films (who’ll hopefully be pushing this movie come Oscar time), Hardy shows he’s fully capable of handling action scenes.

The Plot: An ex-Marine haunted by a tragic past, Tommy Conlon (Tom Hardy) returns to his hometown of Pittsburgh and enlists his father, a recovered alcoholic and his former coach, to train him for an MMA tournament awarding the biggest purse in the history of the sport. As Tommy blazes a violent path towards the title prize, his brother, Brendan, (Joel Edgerton) a former MMA fighter unable to make ends meet as a public school teacher, returns to the amateur ring to provide for his family after being suspended from his day job. Even though years have passed, recriminations and betrayals keep Brendan bitterly estranged from both Tommy and his father.

But when Brendan’s unlikely rise as an underdog sets him on a collision course with Tommy, the two brothers must finally confront the forces that tore them apart, all the while waging the most intense, winner-takes-all battle of their lives.

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