March 7, 2014The Naked Man was a pretty good movie. It could have been great, but it needed a little help. Most of the time while my wife and I were watching it and we were totally immersed in what was going on and then there were a few minutes when absolutely nothing was going on and we could have cared less. Michael Rapaport starred as a chiropractor moonlighting as a wrestler called The Naked Man. His pregnant wife wanted him to give up his wrestling career for a quieter, family life, so he did and they moved back to his hometown to start his own chiropractic business across the street from his parents' drug store. A couple bizarre thugs (Michael Jeter and John Carroll Lynch) came into his parents' shop, with a goal to buy up all the small town drug stores to use as a front to push their own illegal drugs, when Rapaport wasn't there. They killed his parents and almost killed his wife. Seeing his family dead (and under the impression that his wife and baby were dead too), Rapaport went off the deep end. He put on his Naked Man wrestling outfit and started killing people while preaching spinal safety, culminating in a pretty epic showdown with Jeter and Lynch. I would recommend this movie, but keep in mind there will be parts when you'll be so bored that you'll forget why you're watching it. Just try to stick it out to the end, I think it's worth it.
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