Spoilers.

Mike Tyson. I have heard jokes about him for years and as a fan of boxing he wasn't all that great.

This documentary consists of new and old interviews (Mostly new) and footage of his fights.

The story is good, the pacing is well done but the new interview clips of him walking us through his life gets annoying. The cuts ahead in a scene but you still hear the dialogue and see three of his talking heads. It gets annoying.

Tyson breaks a few times and almost starts to cry which is sad. He talks about his financial troubles and how it is his fault.

The part where he talks about beating up Don King is hilarious because he has no remorse for it at all.

Back to what I was saying about him not being all that great. He won a lot of fights but when it really counted like with the title he lost and when he lost he lost in an embarrassing fashion.

He says after prison he lost faith and pretty much only did it for the paycheck. It goes as far as to have an interview after his last fight where he says "I'm done with boxing, I just did it for the paycheck. I'm sorry to all the fans I disappointed."

How do you ruin your legacy? Tyson says do it for a paycheck.

People remember the good times but a lot of people remember the last impression and for Mikey it was throwing a fight for some cash.

He admits did some bad things with other women but not the one he was convicted of raping. That makes it ok then.

I enjoyed this as a fan of documentaries and as a boxing fan. Tyson has a slur in his voice that gets annoying and he's not very sympathetic.

If you like the guy, you will like this film. It is head and shoulders above that dreadful Michael Jai White film.

Wes,

This was a good documentary.

I've been quite nonplussed by Tyson in the past, but his interviews depicted a man racked with guilt about his mistakes. The focus was clearly on Tyson alone, but I would've enjoyed an extra 20 minutes or so to tie that into the wider economic conditions that gave rise to his troubled childhood. They touched on it with his first trainer, a guy he clearly had much respect for. To see that Tyson juxtaposed with a screaming pantomime villain threatening to "fuck" a white guy was quite something. Those scenes were powerful enough to show Tyson as what he truly is - a contradiction. I agree that the Don King discussion was another effective means of driving home that point.

It's interesting to note that Mike had just come out of rehab when he took those interviews, so I do wonder what effect that had on his comments, and his perceptions on his past and his future.

Good documentary, however. The only niggling feeling was that it lacked a coherent narrative, which - personally - I think sets aside the good from the great documentaries.

Case in point? Morgan Spurlock's dreadful 'Supersize Me'. So, if you east McDonald's 3 times a day, for 30 days, your weight will increase - nice one, Morgan. How about the societal changes that facilitate this type of behaviour, and more importantly, the economic factors of children eating McDonald's for breakfast. Terrible sophomoric attempt at documentary making. Anyway, I am ranting now - yes, 'Tyson' was good ;)

Andrew

I would have enjoyed it if they added full fights (Hand picked by Tyson) as a special feature on the DVD.

If they can get the rights to put them in the film they could have put them fully on the DVD.

He's the guy whom deserves what he got but you just root for him... like Scott Peterson.