Day 230: Tyson

Directed By- James Toback

Written By- James Toback

Starring- Mike Tyson

Critics Review- "Utterly absorbing and fascinating, Tyson captivates viewers for its 90 minutes."- Sonny Bunch "Washington Times"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 85% Audience- 77%

Out of a possible 5 stars- 4 stars

My Review-

This documentary is mostly just Mike Tyson talking to a camera  for 90 minutes, along with archive footage and photos; and at first you would think it would be kind of boring but it isn't its actually really good. With a few things that picked out here and there. It was a candid sit down of Tyson talking about his life, and how he became a boxer through his ups and downs and leading to his retirement. I believe that this documentary would have not been that good if it was not made the way it was, with certain ways that Toback did the interview him or would lead to the archive footage; most of the footage were of his fights or interviews and with his first wife Robin Givens who was abused at him at the time. I remember the fight with Holyfield when he bit off his ear and watching more I can see why he bit it off, but still it was still no need to do what he did, he lost his temper and he realized that now and says it would have not made him what he was today. It seems like Tyson has learned a lot from his mistakes and has been trying to bring his life back together; by starring in the The Hangover and Hangover Part II, in which my opinion he took the first movie to a whole different level with his small cameo by singing Phil Collins. Also during his interviews we can see that he is not actually a bad person, he just made mistakes here and there and realized that he had to pay for the consequences. After watching this you realize that Tyson is a genuinely humble and respectable person. This documentary made me have more respect for me in some aspects of how he is. This man had a hard life and at one point he says that he did not know if he was going to live up to a certain age. and that was why he lived the life that he did and he realizes that now that he is at the age of what is now 43 he can slow down and enjoy his life. I recommend this documentary on Mike Tyson so you can get a better understanding of him and it is a really good watch for a documentary.